From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 7 07:16:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED84313EA3B; Sat, 7 May 2011 07:16:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8574413EA2A; Sat, 7 May 2011 07:16:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110507071628.8574413EA2A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 07:16:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.1 Humanist at 24: Chuck Bush 1948-2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 1. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 08:12:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist at 24: Chuck Bush 1948-2011 Today Humanist begins its 25th, quarter-century year. In usual and generously imprecise human terms, we could say that a generation has passed and that we're on to the next one. I certainly get that sense from encountering whole collections of writings on the digital humanities, not just published but some time ago, that I knew nothing about until accidentially encountering them. This at first is shocking because I am always on the prowl. But as my friend Harold Short remarked a few days ago, our divergences of ideas, views, opinions, organizations and everything else are signs of vigour. It's what happens to fields that succeed. Perhaps they go to seed, but then those seeds, some of them, germinate and sprout and grow. Those of us who think we have *said it* just have to accept that it is (because we are) a living thing which mutates, has babies and that argues with itself. In the latest thing I am writing I've been dealing with a book review that sharply levels the charge of disunity of opinion at a branch of our field, arguings that the lack of consensus is a sure sign of failure. What's got me going is the author's evident need to think that computing is all about coming up with the correct answer (which unsurprisingly he thinks should turn out to agree rather closely with received knowledge about the subject). After all, we've given the field he has put in the dock 30 or more years to come up with the goods, and all we get are more questions! What's much, much more difficult to accept than our comfortably small subculture spinning out of our control is that with the passing of a generation people pass. We can say, as Gregory Bateson once did, that room needs to be made for the next generation, not just or even primarily in the physical sense. (Bateson was such a man that he may well have said this or thought it on his deathbed.) Ideas and their expressions turn into prisons needing to be torn down and remade. And so on and so forth. There are many other comforting thoughts which we can have that, I suppose, all come down to the cycle of nature in one form or another. "But old age should burn and rage at close of day". "And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb" anything at all. So I remember Chuck Bush, who died on 13 April, for who he was. As far as I can recall he was there, at the International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH) in 1987, in Columbia, South Carolina, when I started in the then small community and after which, from inspiration at the event, Humanist began. He was then as friendly, stalwart and faithful as he remained throughout the following years. Solid as a rock, until suddenly he wasn't. With news of his death various things have been done and others are planned. The official online memorial is at aurora-22360.tributes.com/show/Charles--Chuck--Bush-91259514. I have made desultory effort to collect remembrances of Chuck in addition to the brief expressions which flooded the internal ACH Executive list. Here are two. "He was a good man", Steve Ramsay wrote on 14 April, and like Steve "I will miss his kindly bearing and his good sense. He will be dearly missed." Harold sent me "one general and one specific observation about Chuck": > The general one is to do with the way he combined thoughtfulness and > good humour. He had a way of blinking that always seemed to me a > sure sign he was thinking - i.e. he had listened to what you had to > say and he was reflecting on it, a trait one might wish for in all > one's colleagues. So many times in Committee meetings, where I often > encountered him of course in the last few years, his would be the > calm voice that suggested it might be a good idea to move our > discussion in a different direction, or added some significant point > in support of an argument. > > But perhaps his greatest gift was in putting forward his point of > view or telling you things in indirect or subtle ways. I remember an > occasion when I was well on the way to making a very public gaffe > over confusing Fred Bloggs and Fred Smith; realising this, Chuck did > not say 'don't be an idiot, you surely mean Fred Bloggs'. What he > said was: 'we should find a way to involve Fred Smith in our new > initiative X, don't you think?' It was very subtly done, but saved > me both immediate and later public embarrassment. Not many people > have that gift! Simple gifts. Farewell, Chuck. Happy birthday, Humanist. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 7 07:52:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3FF13EF67; Sat, 7 May 2011 07:52:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 991C513EF58; Sat, 7 May 2011 07:52:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110507075214.991C513EF58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 07:52:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.2 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 2. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 21:50:26 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110506045258.9E76313E587@woodward.joyent.us> "Electronic philology is not only a way to make things faster and inventories more accurate. It is not just a tool. It is also, more deeply, a change in our attitude." (F.A. Marcos Marin, 1998, in New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications ed. D. Fiormonte and J. Usher, 2001, p.19) In spite of the attitude we take, whether for historical reasons, or because the situation demands it, to regard the computer as "just a tool", the fact remains that the addition of the tool to the task always changes the task. Even the example Willard gave of the mainframe computer that they all regarded as just a tool because it was kept in a separate room and didn't much interact with them, changed forever their methods of working and the sort of things they could do. The tendency for you to call something "just a tool" might be inversely proportional to your degree of interaction with 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 9 07:21:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA42113F768; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:21:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B35A13F758; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:21:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 07:21:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 3. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Smith (135) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 24.926 in denial [2] From: del thomas Ph D (70) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 11:08:33 -0400 From: James Smith Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 24.926 in denial In-Reply-To: <4DC38749.8020601@mccarty.org.uk> - Just a Tool - My impression is that many people see the computer as a tool in this sense. It's there behind the scenes, but not an integral part of any argument. People tend to hide any electronic assistance just as people tend not to cite the actual resource they use, instead citing the paper copy in the library that they accessed indirectly through some electronic means. What might change if Google announced it might remove Google Scholar if there weren't any significant documented use in the citation indices? These practices of eliding the electronic are dangerous because they create a facade that hides what actually happened to produce the reported results. The computer is just a tool, but so is a paintbrush. No one dismisses a painter's art just because it was done with a paintbrush, even though you can produce some good art with just fingers and paint. At the same time, I can't pick up a paintbrush and produce art. I haven't had enough practice. Coloring by number doesn't make art. The current crop of tools act like the color by number painting. There are simple buttons to push and slots for information. There's a lot of handholding because the users aren't expected to be proficient in computation, any more than I'm expected to be proficient in painting. The results are useful, but they don't capture anything of the researcher using the tool. Instead, they capture arguments made by the tool builder on how humanities should be computed. Does the tool user understand and agree with these arguments? Not every paintbrush needs the training of an artist. I don't need to have years of experience in order to paint the side of a house. Nor do I need to have years of experience to use the computer to write an email or use a word processor. Humanists aren't interested in the broad strokes that paint a house, but in the details that create art. The computer is just a tool, but it's different than most tools. It's malleable. It's a medium like clay that takes on the shape of the artist. We should mold the computer to our will to answer our research questions. We shouldn't mold ourselves to the computer and change our research questions so that the computer can help. Right now, I fear that we are using the computer like a hammer. We know it can do something well, so we turn everything else into a nail. The computer has no free will. It can't do anything we don't tell it to do. If we do nothing but stare at the computer all day, it will stare back. It will win any blinking contest unless the power goes out or some piece of hardware fails. This is an important point, because anything the computer does is a result of a decision by the researcher. If those decisions are hidden because the computational aspects of the research are hidden, then the reader can't know what actually happened to produce the reported results. These decisions are the electronic equivalent of an editorial statement in a scholarly edition. How trusted is a scholarly edition in which there is no explanation of the decisions made by the editor? Why should the digital equivalent be an exception? - Imprinting - The idea of imprinting is fundamental to the issues facing digital humanities. Imagine someone had grown up reading only graphic novels. There are pictures on every page with a little text. Everything is immediate and visual. After they've been reading these for twenty years, give them their first text-only novel. What might happen? I imagine they'd start looking for the panels they were used to. They'd also understand that left to right, top to bottom isn't the only way to scan a page, so they'd be looking for hints on how to approach the page. They might expect information on the page to be two-dimensional and feel that there was something missing because the text was only one-dimensional. Would it be obvious that the sentence that got cut off at the right side of the page continued from the left on the next line? Is the gutter always dividing? If this person were a student in a college-level literature course, would they be able to pass by saying that they simply couldn't deal with a text-only interface to the story but needed a graphical interface instead? Would they be considered literate? The analogy isn't perfect. Graphic novels are much richer than any current GUI on the market. Text-only novels have deeper arguments than anything in a CLI. But we are in a time when most people have only dealt with the graphic novel view of the computer while they really need to be at the text novel reading level to take advantage of the full power available. The difficulty is getting them to realize that the GUI isn't the only realistic option. - Provocation - One last thing that is on my mind in this vein. A useful model for the brain is one in which generation and constraint are separate processes. The result is that we do what we don't choose not to do. We can't do what isn't generated, and what we don't filter out ends up getting through. This can be seen in the problems writers have when they try to write and edit simultaneously. It leads to writer's block. This also means that a drunk person probably doesn't do anything that doesn't come from their deep personality. The result is that the writing that is produced with a typewriter and the writing that is produced with a computer should be different. The typewriter makes editing expensive. The computer makes it cheap. I have to work hard to turn off the editing side of my brain when I'm drafting a novel on a computer. The important takeaway for digital humanities though is that the computer is an agent of provocation. It's generative, like modern art. It's up to us to apply the constraints using our expert judgement. -- Jim On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Willard McCarty < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > I asked about "just a tool" meaning Wendell's first, dismissive sense, > illustrated by his first example, > > > "I don't think social media are properly a subject of humanistic >> criticism. The computer is just a tool." >> > implying, as he said, that > > it is therefore of less interest or importance, as if >> tools were not significant. It relies on a non sequitur: because the >> computer is a tool, what we do with it -- and what we can do only with >> it -- is outside the scope of humanistic inquiry. >> > > [snip] > > Let me put to you an historical thesis, and invite you to throw stuff at > it. The thesis is that a long time ago, before some of those here were part > of discussions like this, scholars encountered mainframe computing (slow, > huge, expensive, noisy, inaccessible except through intermediaries etc), and > when they met computing in this physical form they and what became the > digital humanities were, as ethologists say, "imprinted". Perhaps one could > claim that urban, middle-class culture as a whole was imprinted in this way, > since for 20 years or more it was bombarded with the mainframe image of > computing. Ever after that encounter, despite how much the hardware and > software have changed, we have tended to think of computing as a one way > trip from button-pushing to result-getting, as a problem-solving exercise. > Now I don't mean that this is the *only* way we think, esp not consciously, > rather that this discreditable idea of computing remains a significant > impediment to what we do and how we think. > > [snip] > So what do you think? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 11:46:18 -0400 From: del thomas Ph D Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110506045258.9E76313E587@woodward.joyent.us> There are tools with in tools. Such as OS and apps in addition to different add on "plug ins." So the "just a tool" constantly evolves and expands. For example, there are computers that use fuzzy logic and may control everything from our homes to traffic to calculations in space and more. But in some way most of them have the quality that Thoreau suggests: "Men have become the tools of their tools." Or as suggested sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I see the consequences while just a tool as increasing the destination orientation at the expense of the journey. Is it a problem that more and more of us are limited to the view of the bottom line/ answer even when the my no longer exist and don't know how "things" work? Del _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 07:23:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20CE13F7D9; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:23:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8ABC313F7AF; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:22:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110509072258.8ABC313F7AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 07:22:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.4 PhD studentships in Ireland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 4. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 08:15:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) Four-Year PhD studentships > Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 17:06:49 +0100 > From: Poul Holm Call for applications: Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) Four-Year PhD Studentships DAH is a full-time four year inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme designed to enable students to carry out research in the arts and humanities at the highest level, using new media and computer technologies. The programme is funded by the Higher Education Authority under its Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 5 and is co-ordinated with an all-Irish university consortium: Trinity College Dublin; National University of Ireland, Galway; National University of Ireland, Maynooth and University College Cork. The programme includes additional teaching contributions from Queen's University Belfast, University of Ulster and the Royal Irish Academy and from its industrial partners, Google, IBM, and Intel. The consortium invites applications for a number of four-year doctoral studentships in Digital Arts and Humanities (see below for links on the scholarships available in individual institutions). The studentships come with a stipend of 16,000 euro per year. Fees for Irish and EU citizens are fully covered; for information on fees relating to non-EU citizens, please contact the relevant contact person in each institution. High-calibre candidates holding, or expecting to receive, a first-class or upper second-class honours degree in an appropriate discipline, are encouraged to apply. Candidates will choose to enter the programme within either the ARTS or the HUMANITIES strands. All PhD programmes are by research thesis. The taught modules will provide you with technical and theoretical skills relevant for digital reearch. In both strands students are required to complete core, training, and career development modules, including main modules shared across the consortium and others institutionally-based. Applications must be sent directly to your preferred institution. Trinity College Dublin studentships are available for the Schools of Drama, Film and Music, English, Histories and Humanities, Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Linguistic, Speech and Communications Sciences, Religions, Theology and Ecumenics, and the Department of Philosophy. For further information, see http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/Fellowships/ Applications should be made online at the Postgraduate Application Centre: www.pac.ie/tcd / http://www.pac.ie/tcd%20/ Course reference code: TRB23. The deadline for applications is 18 May 2011. National University of Ireland Galway studentships are available in the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Sciences (www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute) and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media (www.filmschool.ie). Applications may be made at http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/research-postgraduate-programmes/structured-phd/digital-arts-humanities.html National University of Ireland Maynooth students will participate in a collaborative Structured Phd Programme with co-registration in An Foras Feasa and a participating academic department (English, History, Music, Media Studies, Celtic Studies, Modern Languages, or Philosophy). For details of the application process, see: http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/courses/postgrad/digital-arts-and-humanities-phd University College Cork students will work chiefly with staff in History, English and Music, and will receive their degree through a multidisciplinary Study Board on Digital Arts and Humanities within the College of Arts, Celtic Studies, Social Sciences. For information contact b.dooley@ucc.ie . Prof Poul Holm Academic Director Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland Tel: +353 1 896 8490 Mobile: +353 (0)876 188 039 Fax: +353 1 896 4220 http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub Trinity Long Room Hub is the Trinity College Arts and Humanities Research Institute To register for our biannual newsletter, BeSpoke, please visit www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/newsletter/ http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/newsletter/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 9 07:34:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7399413F987; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:34:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE42013F97F; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:34:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110509073405.EE42013F97F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 07:34:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.5 events: several & diverse X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 5. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Berry D.M." (34) Subject: Digital Shakespeare Monday 16 May 2011 (Workshop) [2] From: Elisabeth Andre (37) Subject: cfp: Interactive Digital Storytelling - ICIDS 2011 [3] From: "Summerfield, Michelle" (37) Subject: CMCI Symsposium: Cultural consumers and copyright, 19 May 2011 [4] From: Simon Dixon (18) Subject: London Digital Humanities Group: Academic Journals in the DigitalWorld - 19 May [5] From: Willard McCarty (21) Subject: Visualisations and Simulations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 11:17:15 +0100 From: "Berry D.M." Subject: Digital Shakespeare Monday 16 May 2011 (Workshop) Digital Shakespeare Monday 16 May 2011 Workshop and Talks SWANSEA UNIVERSITY 4th floor SmallTalk Room, Faraday Building Organised by Dr. David M. Berry and Dr. Tom Cheesman Few dispute that digital technology is fundamentally changing the way in which we engage in the research process. Indeed, it is becoming more and more evident that research is increasingly being mediated through digital technology. Many argue that this mediation is slowly beginning to change what it means to undertake research, affecting both the epistemologies and ontologies that underlie a research programme (sometimes conceptualised as 'close' versus 'distant' reading, see Moretti 2000). Of course, this development is variable depending on disciplines and research agenda, with some more reliant on digital technology than others, but it is rare to find an academic today who had no access to digital technology as part of the research activity and there remains fewer means for the non-digital scholar to undertake research in the modern university (see JAH 2008). Not to mention the ubiquity of email, Google searches and bibliographic databases which become increasingly crucial as more of the worlds libraries are scanned and placed online. These, of course, also produce their own specific problems, such as huge quantities of articles, texts and data suddenly available at the researcher's fingertips, indeed, "It is now quite clear that historians will have to grapple with abundance, not scarcity. Several million books have been digitized...and nearly every day we are confronted with a new digital historical resource of almost unimaginable size" (JAH 2008). In this workshop we will look at how we might use the new digital tools of text aggregation, processing and information or data visualisation to provide the ways of looking at and thinking about Shakespeare. From making data patterns, to narrativising through algorithms and visualisation we aim to examine how these approaches and methods can assist in undertaking humanities research into textual materials.  Programme 11.30-12.00     Registration (4th floor SmallTalk Room, Faraday Building) 12 noon:        Introduction and Welcome (David Berry) 12.15-12.50:    The Swansea VVV Project: Visualising Version Variation (Tom Cheesman) 13.00-13.45:    Understanding through Visualisation (Stephan Thiel, Potsdam) 13.45-14.00:    Coffee Break 14.00-14.30:    Shakespeare in Arabic (Sameh Hanna, Salford) 14.30-15.00:    Visualising Textual Corpora (Geng Zhao, Swansea University) 15.15-16.15:    Computational Information Design  (Stephan Thiel, Potsdam) 16.15:  Reflections on the workshop (Tom Cheesman, Robert S. Laramee) 16.45:  Ends     There is no charge for the workshop but as space is limited please email d.m.berry@Swansea.ac.uk if you are interested in attending. http://www.delightedbeauty.org/ Funded by the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) --- Dr David M. Berry Department of Political and Cultural Studies School of Arts and Humanities Swansea University. Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, UK Tel: x2633 Web: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 08:37:06 +0100 From: Elisabeth Andre Subject: cfp: Interactive Digital Storytelling - ICIDS 2011 ICIDS 2011:The International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling *** ICIDS 2011: Call for Papers *** The Fourth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling November 28 - December 1, 2011: Vancouver, Canada http://icids2011.wp.rpi.edu/ Submission Deadline: June 24, 2011 ICIDS is the premier international conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS), bringing together researchers from a wide variety of fields to share novel techniques, present recent results, and exchange new ideas. Having been hosted successfully in Europe for the past three years, ICIDS 2011 marks the conference's first venture to an entirely new continent: North America. Enabled by the advent of interactive digital media, Interactive Digital Storytelling redefines the experience of narrative by allowing its audience to actively participate in the story. As such, IDS offers interesting new possibilities for games, training, and learning, through the enriching of virtual characters with intelligent behavior, the collaboration of humans and machines in the creative process, and the combination of narrative knowledge and user activity into novel, interactive artefacts. IDS draws on many aspects of Computer Science, and specifically on research in Artificial Intelligence and Virtual/Mixed Reality; topics include multi-agent systems, natural language generation and understanding, player modelling, narrative intelligence, drama management, cognitive robotics, and smart graphics. Furthermore, IDS is inherently an multidisciplinary field. To create novel applications in which users play a significant role together with digital characters and other autonomous elements, new concepts for Human-Computer Interaction are needed, and novel concepts from theoretical work in the Humanities and interactive art are important to incorporate as well. We welcome research papers and demonstrations -- including interactive narrative art -- presenting new scientific results, innovative technologies, case studies, creative insights, best practice showcases, or improvements to existing techniques and approaches in the multidisciplinary research field of Interactive Digital Storytelling and its related application areas, e.g. games, virtual/online worlds, e-learning, edutainment, and entertainment. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 08:02:25 +0100 From: "Summerfield, Michelle" Subject: CMCI Symsposium: Cultural consumers and copyright, 19 May 2011 Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI) symposium: Cultural consumers and copyright Date: Thursday, 19 May 2011 Time: 1-6pm Venue: K2.31 (2nd floor, King's Building), Strand Campus, King's College London This symposium aims to broaden the scope of copyright discussion by bringing in cultural consumers' perspectives. The papers question how copyright policy/law understands cultural consumers and their consumption practices, how cultural consumers perceive copyright and its protection/infringement and whether copyright law's conceptual dichotomies between idea and expression and between production and consumption can be sustainable. The tension around copyright protection is also identified from the context of global inequality of music production and consumption capacities. In addition, the current copyright protection term is critically examined from both the producers' and consumers' stance. The symposium, involving researchers from law, cultural sociology, media studies and creative industries research, presents an exciting, interdisciplinary space for re-thinking copyright. The event is hosted by Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI), King's College London. Not only researchers/students but also policy makers, cultural practitioners and members of the general public are welcome. 1.00-1.10 Introduction 1.10-1.45 (including Q&A) Viewing cultural consumers through the lens of copyright law Dr Tanya Aplin, Law, King's College London Copyright law characterizes cultural consumers according to their status as either 'individual' or 'institutional' consumers, 'digital' versus 'analogue' consumers, 'legitimate' users versus 'pirates', or 'commercial' versus 'non-commercial' users. Copyright owners, in particular, argue that digital consumers, 'pirates' and commercial users pose the greatest threat to the copyright system, whereas many scholars, educational institutions and cultural repositories argue that copyright law is failing 'institutional', 'legitimate' and 'non-commercial' users and treating them unfairly. This paper will examine these different categories of consumers/users and the concerns that relate to each of them. 1.45-2.20 Cultural consumers' alternative ethics: A case study of anime fansubbing Dr Hye-Kyung Lee, CMCI, King's College London By investigating 'anime fansubbing', this paper discusses copyright and its infringement from the consumers' perspective. Anime fansubbing is a media fandom where avid anime (Japanese animation) fans copy anime, translate Japanese to another language, subtitle and release a subtitled version on the Internet to share it with other fans, without permission from the copyright holder. The case study of English fansubbing (fansubbing in English) of anime finds that this activity has been informed by fansubbers' own ethics that intend to help to grow the US anime industry by respecting US publishers' licenses and self-regulating fansubbed anime. However, the existing ethics have been increasingly challenged under the advancement of digital fansubbing, the rise of peer-to-peer distribution and the globalisation of fansubbing production and consumption. The case study demonstrates that the idea of copyright is contingent and open to cultural consumers' own understanding and interpretation. This paper will be published in Creative Industries Journal 3(3) in 2011. 2.20-2.55 Consumer uproar or net activism? The "pirate" movement in Sweden Dr Jonas Andersson, Culture and Communications, Södertörn University, Sweden >From a perspective influenced by actor-network theory and media ecology, I will discuss the agential specificities found in file-sharing as an activity and historical phenomenon. I will problematise the links between file-sharing and activism, taking the Swedish file-sharing debate as my primary example. Some relevant terms that I will discuss are visibility, measurability, agency, and the ontological presumptions of what the internet infrastructure is, and the political dispute over what it ought to be. Shared metaphors and views of the digital infrastructure are central to my analysis: What does our use of terms like 'downloading,' 'sharing,' 'seeding,' 'leeching,' and 'piracy' entail? How useful is it to compare file-sharing with gift cultures? Where does the perspectival horizon lie in digital networks? When individual agency is shown to be diffracted, where does that leave personal responsibility, and what does that mean for regulatory policies? I hope to raise several fertile questions like this, and some tentative answers as well. 2.55-3.30 Tea & Coffee at CMCI Workroom 3.30-4.05 4'33", or how the idea-expression dichotomy collapses when you listen to music Professor Barry Shank, Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, US and Dr Jason Toynbee, Media Studies, Open University The idea-expression dichotomy (IED) lies at the heart of copyright. According to it, the idea in a work is not copyrightable whereas expression of that idea is. As a result ideas can circulate freely and so benefit consumers, yet incentive is maintained for creators to go on creating. Copyright, in other words, finds a righteous balance in the dichotomous nature of symbolic works. However we argue that the IED is invalid on ontological grounds. Through an examination of 4'33" by John Cage, and the efforts to protect the copyright of this piece on the part of publisher CF Peters we demonstrate how the dichotomy collapses. The expression cannot be distinguished from the idea. Then, using 4'33" as a fulcrum point, we go on to explore the dichotomy in other cases such as sampling and Muzak. The IED breaks down here as well, revealing copyright to be nothing more than a species of the commodity form. 4.05-4.40 Can Western consumers really help development by buying 'world music'? Professor Andy Pratt, CMCI, King's College London This paper discusses the wider issues via a case study of music production web in Senegal and follows the tentacles of global production that spread back to Europe, and return profits there. The paper reflects upon the tensions between intellectual property rights in the cultural economy and global development. Does the current system of IPR serve the developing world, or does it serve to keep it in its place? Even within normative legal solutions, is enforcement, effective or wise? 4.40-5.15 Opening up back-catalogues through copyright term reversion: Why we need a coalition of artists and consumers Professor Martin Kretschmer, Centre for IP Policy & Management, Bournemouth University Copyright law awards exclusive rights that now often last more than 100 years (life + 70 years). Typically, these rights are transferred to third parties who accumulate back-catalogues of rights. A large percentage of works in these back-catalogues are not available for social and commercial innovation. We have reliable indicators of the scale of the problem. Studies conducted in the United States at the time of the constitutional challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act (Eldred v. Ashcroft, 2002) found that only 2.3% of in copyright books and 6.8% of in copyright films released pre-1946 remained commercially available. A study for the Library of Congress on the reissues of U.S. sound recordings found that of a random sample of 1521 records issued between 1890 and 1964, only 14 percent were available from rights owners. A European Commission study has estimated "conservatively" that for 13% of the total number of books in copyright, the owner is unknown (i.e. they could not be reissued even if the will was there). This paper advocates copyright term reversion as a tool for opening up back-catalogues. Under the proposal, copyright will only be assignable for an initial term of 10 years, after which it will fall back to the creator. 5.15-5.25 Break 5.25-5.45 Panel discussion/further Q&A There is a symposium registration fee of £10 (the concession fee for students is £5). Please book a place in advance by sending a registration form (available at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/cmci/events/index.aspx) and a cheque (Payee: King's College London) to c/o Michelle Summerfield, CMCI, King's College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS. The venue is located on the second floor of the King's Building, Strand Campus of King's College London. Please ask at reception for directions. For a map please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/strand.html. For further information please contact Michelle Summerfield at michelle.summerfield@kcl.ac.uk or Dr Hye-Kyung Lee (hk.lee@kcl.ac.uk). --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 14:47:10 +0100 From: Simon Dixon Subject: London Digital Humanities Group: Academic Journals in the DigitalWorld - 19 May In-Reply-To: The next meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place at Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AR on Thursday 19 May at 5pm. The meeting will take the form of a panel discussion on the topic of 'The Future of Academic Journals in the Digital World'. Speakers will be Ian Rowlands (Professor of Information Science, UCL), and Victoria Bates and Thomas Beaumont (University of Exeter). Ian Rowlands is a founding member of the UCL Centre for Publishing and the CIBER research group. His research interests include scholarly communication, bibliometrics and journal publishing. Victoria Bates and Thomas Beaumont are co-founders of Ex-Historia, an online journal published by postgraduate history students at the University of Exeter. It publishes original, refereed articles and book reviews by postgraduate students on any historical topic. Victoria and Thomas will discuss how the online nature of Ex-Historia has both assisted and created challenges for its development. Despite being ostensibly a journal with a very traditional format, it has been fundamentally shaped by being online and open access. They will address how an e-journal for postgraduates can provide valuable publishing opportunities with widespread distribution, as well as being produced at a low cost. However, there are limitations to the online format, particularly with regard to permanency and the perception of the professionalism of such journals (by potential contributors and within the publishing industry). Victoria and Thomas will also address the future direction of Ex-Historia, and online journals in general, by considering how e-journals can use their online formats to be more innovative or interactive than traditional journals. Dr Williams's Library is located in Gordon Square a short walk from UCL and the British Library. For directions see http://www.dwlib.co.uk/dwlib/visiting.html. All are welcome to attend. All are welcome. To confirm attendance or for further information please contact s.dixon@qmul.ac.uk The London Digital Humanities Group is supported by Queen Mary, University of London. -- Dr Simon Dixon Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dissenting Academies Project Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies Department of English and Drama Queen Mary, University of London http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/people/sdixon.html http://qmul.academia.edu/SimonDixon/About ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 08:30:39 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Visualisations and Simulations In-Reply-To: My attention has been drawn to an article in The Observer highlighting the POCOS project (http://www.pocos.org/), "Preservation of Complex Visual Objects Symposia". The first symposium, "Visualisations and Simulations", is to be held 16-17 June, in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's College London, organised by the King's Visualisation Lab based at the Department of Digital Humanities. The two-day symposium on Visualisations and Simulations will provide a forum for participants to review and discuss the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion of the following key topics: --Intellectual “Transparency” In 3D Cultural Heritage Models --The role of Virtual Museums --Preservation of Mixed Reality Representations of Heritage Sites Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 10 06:36:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08ADB14050F; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:36:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4EB01404F6; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:36:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110510063651.C4EB01404F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 06:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.6 in denial (& on tools) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 6. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (75) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial [2] From: "Michael S. Hart" (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial [3] From: John Savage (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial [4] From: Laval Hunsucker (46) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial [5] From: David Golumbia (35) Subject: two notes on tools [6] From: Jascha Kessler (287) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 09:27:53 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> Follow up on "just a tool"-- What I think we need to avoid: -Uncritically making a fetish of the "new." "New" is not a judgment of value. Value judgments are only possible when goals are articulated. Depending upon one's goals, something that is new could be counterproductive. -Making a fetish of the new is usually carried out without any historical awareness -- but we don't know what is truly "new" without this awareness. -Failing to recognize that a computer is a different thing and its use has different meanings depending upon the task being performed. Therefore, a computer may be "just a tool" when performing some tasks but much more than that when performing others. If I'm producing a plain text document, the printed output is substantially the same as that of a manual typewriter. Compare a person who types a document for publication on a manual typewriter and then mails this manuscript to a publisher to one who uses a word processing program and emails it to the publisher: isn't it possible for the final, printed product to look exactly the same in both cases? What difference did the computer make in this case? I would say a difference in time. -Assuming that a difference in time is always more that merely quantitative. I agree that performing tasks at higher speeds -can- result in a qualitative difference, but we need to make this argument on a case by case basis. -So I think we should avoid generalities on both sides: both the generality that a computer is "just a tool" and the generality that a computer is "more than just a tool." I would also like us to consider a slightly different context for the phrase, "the computer is just a tool." Whenever someone says something like this, they are usually responding to what they perceive as a bloated claim about the computer. What I think is going on at times is that the person making the perceived bloating claim is thinking of some uses while the person denying that claim is thinking of other uses. We also need to ask ourselves -- a computer is "just a tool" compared to what? I think what is implicitly being juxtaposed against the concept of tool is the concept of a machine. The difference between a tool and a machine is that a tool is completely dependent upon the immediate agency of its user while a machine can run on its own, and thus act somewhat unpredictably. Once we think in terms of a tool vs. machine dichotomy it becomes a bit more obvious that a computer can be either depending upon the use to which it is put. A word processing program is a tool with occasional machine qualities that can be enabled or disabled at various levels. But clearly the computer is also a machine in other ways. No one gets angry with a hammer for hitting our thumb, because a hammer is just a tool. It just sits there and does nothing until we pick it up. If we get angry when we hit our thumbs with a hammer, we do so because we feel stupid for hitting ourselves, and because we are in pain. But we do get angry with our computers for "acting on their own," so to speak, even though they do not cause us physical pain. The last question is of the effect of the use of computers upon human consciousness. Again, I think that there are more affirmations than reasoned, critical arguments here. Of course even just the use of tools affects the user, but monkeys use tools and have remained monkeys for as long as they have existed. Again, we shouldn't assume that -- or how -- the use of either machine or tool affects human consciousness, but make reasoned arguments based upon evidence. Most of what I've read about the difference between hypertext and print indicates to me that we're not so much going forward as returning to the assumptions guiding manuscript culture. The real difference here is not between print and hypertext, but between hypertext and manuscripts, when the manuscript is one of many copies of a now-unstable original that no longer exists (as in the case of the Bible), and when the manuscript is accompanied by images -- when even the text itself becomes a visual element, as in the elaborately drawn initial letters at the beginning of a book or chapter. I also think that we need to remember that the computer was invented without the use of computers, so is still very much dependent upon pre-computing era paradigms. Most of the hundreds of millions of computer users use it for functions still very much reliant upon printed text, such as email, text messages, social networking, blogs, etc. Files and folders and cabinets are physical objects that now indicate different kinds of relationships among "objects" within a computing system. We developed the higher order thinking capable of producing computers because of printed text in the form of both language and numbers. We will lose that capability if we lose printed text. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 07:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> The analogy of computer as tool to paintbrush as tool might be better if changed to digital camera as tool. Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks Co-Founder The World eBook Fair FIVE MILLION FREE eBOOKS! July 4 through August 4 @ http://worldebookfair.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 10:43:04 -0400 From: John Savage Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110506045258.9E76313E587@woodward.joyent.us> On May 6, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Jascha Kessler wrote > Cant resist: in the Bronx decades ago you could call an incompetent, > moronical kid a "tool." Jascha, Let me assure you that "tool" is still used that way here in the Bronx although the anecdotal evidence points to a shift toward a more narrow usage centered on the romantically incompetent and moronical. These days one is most likely to overhear something like this: "you're really dating him? Ugh. He's such a *tool*." In a more serious response to Willard's original query, though, I myself often assert that the computer is just a tool. I do this in the face of the technophobia that still runs rampant on university campuses as an assurance that computers are not magical, mystical, or scary, and that one is unlikely to break a computer simply by using it. Saying that a computer is "just a tool" is for me a necessary corrective to the fear and fetishization I encounter on a daily basis. My assertion that a computer is /simply|just|only|merely/ a tool is not an ontological statement about the nature of the work done with the computer--of course tools may change the work; that goes without saying--but a statement about the electromechanical nature and general reliability and stability of the device itself. A computer is a complicated tool, but it is a tool (perhaps "just a device" would be more accurate, but it lacks pithiness) and as with other complicated devices one ought to respect its complexity but not fear it. One does not refuse to drive because one is not an automotive engineer. One does not hesitate to heat coffee with microwave radiation because one is not a physicist. Nor should one fear to use a computer because one is not a computer scientist. It's just a tool. You can't hurt it. It won't hurt you. Go ahead and click the mouse button as hard as you want; it won't break. Best, --jay --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay Savage, Ph.D. Director of Faculty Technology Services Instructional Technology Academic Computing Fordham University | Fordham IT jsavage@fordham.edu "I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at." --Randall Munroe --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 09:38:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> James Smith wrote in the "in denial" thread : > People tend to hide any electronic assistance just > as people tend not to cite the actual resource they > use, instead citing the paper copy in the library that > they accessed indirectly through some electronic > means. *If* in fact the library still even offers that paper copy -- something that's becoming less and less the case. > What might change if Google announced it might > remove Google Scholar if there weren't any significant > documented use in the citation indices? Fortunately the library characteristically has better / more reliable ways of locating, verifying and accessing the electronic copy than those offered by Google Scholar, at least when it comes to the library's purchased content. ( See now e.g. Péter Jacsó in _Online information review_ for February 2011, p. 154-160 ; Amy Hoseth in _Charleston advisor_ for January 2011, p.36-39 ; etc. etc.) Isn't it to be hoped that GS's current popularity due to ease and speed of use ( as well as perhaps a measure of researcher laziness ? ) won't drive the better [ but of course for the institution more expensive ] approaches out of the market as it were ? What we can depend on Google doing is, naturally, to go its own way as it at any moment itself sees fit. As you suggest, Google can pull Google Scholar any time it chooses, and if it did it would for doing so be accountable only to its shareholders. Anyway, this question of the version behind a citation is nowadays a tricky and problematical one, and in any case an unresolved one. In spite of the DOI System and things such as the APA's "Retrieved from ..." rules. It'd be nice if such an issue got a bit more coordinated attention. Scholars should be concerned, I'd think. At any rate : very good that you raised these points, if only in passing. - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland 9 May 2011 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:27:10 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: two notes on tools In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> 1. the most common context in which i hear the sentence, "after all, the computer is just a tool," is in response to my mentioning something negative about the use of computers in the world, typically lifted directly from mainstream centrist news coverage (things like Stuxnet, "Quants" in the Wall Street crisis, "predator drones"), i have crossed the line from "inherently good thing computers do for us, like transforming everything" to saying "we must pay attention to what actually happens with computers." Then i will be told, in a tone veering between condescension and lecture, that "the computer is just a tool. it all depends on what humans do with it." There is nothing at all inherent in the computational form; there is no need to worry that there might be formal or entailed connections between what the computer itself is, and its sequelae in the world. "The computer is just a tool, like a toaster." 1a. if a student asks about (or asserts) this earnestly in class, i will answer: "toasters and guns are both analog tools. their use depends on what their users make of them. does that mean they are the same thing, or equally dangerous? what does it mean to say 'toasters and guns are just tools and their use depends on what people do with them'?" If i am feeling chipper i might add: "you can kill somebody with a toaster, but it's easier with a gun, and you'd be hard pressed to make a good piece of toast with an ak-47") 2. The computer is by definition, not just A tool. the computer is THE tool. it is the UNIVERSAL tool. with it, any other tool that can be formalized can be simulated. there is no other tool of which this can be said (because if it could be said, then that tool would also be the universal tool: this is where Turing meets Godel). every computer is formally equivalent to every other computer. this is exactly (not "sort of," not "approximately") the quality that is not found in any other tool. a toaster cannot simulate a car unless it is part of a giant toaster-filled transistor, etc. That is Turing's discovery. That is why we are here today. The phrase "just a tool" is applicable to computers less than to any any other tool in existence. It is the sui generis nature of the universal machine that is the very phenomenon we are trying to understand as we deploy it. -- David Golumbia dgolumbia@gmail.com --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 21:04:01 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> I find the comments posted lately increasingly arcane. I suppose everyone is different, and each relates to work and tools idiosyncratically. I am amazed that I wrote a Ph.D. in three months on my wife's little Smith Corona portable [which was her dowry gift to me, apart from her ability to earn a living for us both in those desert years of the grad school]. Wrote, but also typed, of course. Later on, I changed to electric machines, Olympia and then IBM, the latter afforded cheaply by my mother who worked for a major hospital in NYC, and got them on the cheap side. The last one I had was that incredible IBM Selectric, with 5 pages of "memory," that required retyping for every emendation. Terrific! But that 2100$ was wasted, when my wife was encouraged to try an Apple I, then II by a son at Stanford, a computer engineer in the making. She could type and correct a dozen pages! O my! I had my Selectric. Then there was the advent of the Mac Plus with 60 kb of memory! My son was a freshman at Stanford; there was a lottery for cheap Mac Plus the first year; and as it turned out I waited a year because he drew 2500, and that was the number of Frosh in his class. I snatched that machine [he had mainframe Suns to work his magic on], and actually produced a 25 page paper to deliver in Budapest in two weeks! and no retyping page by page. At that moment IBM threw in the towel and came to collect my 2100 Selectric for 600$ rebate, because they saw the bytes biting into the wall: MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN. How many kings have taken the plunge to nowhere since that year! In short, I dont understand complaints [Smith?] about writing/editing hangups. As a writer for near on 70 years, I am aware that in writing, even a letter, I go immediately into automatic trance mode, and transpose words heard in my head, or spoken in my head through my fingers. With age, the fingers betray me increasingly, but fixing the myriad typoseis not hard, what with the red underline that Word and other apps immediately apply. Writing really is a form of speech, and what makes speech fluent and apt is all the more aided by this "tool," which in extreme age may be provided by speaking to the computer. After all, Henry James, and others, walked about talking their work to stenographers, and their later works, like them or not, are what one would get with a dictation computer, a living voice, boring as it can be. I deplore this business of the "scholar" and the categories, and all that wearing of costumes and epaulettes. We must get on with our work, learn to speak our thoughts into words that we can see, and which can be heard immediately, if we wish, or heard first and rendered seeable,and remember, as I do, the travails suffered in 7th grade, merely learning how to set type from a big case into a handheld metal tray to make a line of words. And Mark Twain's financial disaster in supporting the invention of a mechanical typesetter. Good lord, we must run with this damn thing as fast as we can, faster than any gingerbread man... What is the written word but a representation, 2nd hand of speech, and speech a projection of thought, and or thoughtlessness, which is our media noise today.... Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 10 06:37:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5326C140547; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:37:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 67ACD14053A; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:37:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 25.7 professorship at HUMlab, Umeå From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110510063747.67ACD14053A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 06:37:47 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 7. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:11:04 +0200 From: Cecilia Lindhe Subject: Professor of Humanities and Information Technology / WallenbergChair in Digital Humanities Dear all, HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden now invites applications for the following position: Professor of Humanities and Information Technology / Wallenberg Chair in Digital Humanities. HUMlab is an internationally established platform for the humanities, culture and information technology, in a process of rapid expansion. Here, research, development and education are conducted in a dynamic studio environment. Activities at HUMlab comprise several external projects, both national and international, a range of international workshops and conferences, artistic installations, and many visits. HUMlab is engaged in the development of digital humanities internationally, and now further strengthens its profile through creating a Chair in Digital Humanities. This position will be called the ”Wallenberg Chair in Digital Humanities” in accordance with the granted application made to the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Minnesfond Foundation. For more details please visit this site: http://www8.umu.se/umu/aktuellt/arkiv/lediga_tjanster/311-432-11.html For more information about HUMlab, please see the HUMlab Blog (http://blog.humlab.umu.se http://blog.humlab.umu.se/ ) and our seminar archive (http://stream.humlab.umu.se). Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions (contact details below) Best wishes Cecilia Lindhé Assistant Director/research fellow HUMlab Umeå University +46 90 786 9096 cecilia.lindhe@humlab.umu.se _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 10 06:38:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E0214058C; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:38:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EDC7114057C; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:38:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110510063818.EDC7114057C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 06:38:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.8 affordance strength? 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. 25, No. 8. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:24:57 +0100 From: Alejandro Giacometti Subject: Research Study on the Affordance Strength Model Hi All, We are currently running a research study on testing the Affordance Strength Model for evaluating web interfaces. We need some participants. The survey takes about 10 minutes, and it involves performing a simple online task and answering some questions about the task. There is no expertise required to perform the task. Earn some research Karma! http://bit.ly/exPDmD If you are in a generous mood, please forward this message to your colleagues, students, etc. Regards Alejandro ----------------------------------------------------------------- Alejandro Giacometti Doctoral Research Student Dept. of Medical Physics & Bioengineering Dept. of Information Studies Malet Place Engineering Building University College London London, WC1E 6BT, UK +44 7 838 562 819 +1 978 253 4289 alejandro.giacometti.09@ucl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 10 06:40:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B16140603; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:40:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F140B1405EE; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:40:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110510064032.F140B1405EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 06:40:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.9 events: Oxford Summer School; Solomonoff conference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 9. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dianne Nguyen (42) Subject: CFP - Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference - Extended Deadline 16 June2011 [2] From: James Cummings (54) Subject: Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School July 25-29th --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:29:56 +1000 From: Dianne Nguyen Subject: CFP - Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference - Extended Deadline 16 June2011 Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu/ http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.monash.edu/ Proceedings of this multi-disciplinary conference will be published by Springer in the prestigious LNAI (LNCS) series Deadline extended to 16 June 2011 ******************************************************************************************** Dear Colleague You are cordially invited to submit a paper and participate at Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference which, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, between 30 November - 2 December 2011 with the possibility of a tutorial/workshop being organised on the 29th November 2011. This multi-disciplinary Conference will be run back to back with the AI 2011 Conference in Perth, Australia. This is a multi-disciplinary conference based on the wide range of applications of work related to or inspired by that of Ray Solomonoff. The contributions sought for this conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:- Statistical inference and prediction, Econometrics *(including time series and panel data)*, in Principle proofs of financial market inefficiency, Theories of (quantifying) intelligence and new forms of *(universal)*intelligence test *(for robotic, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial life)*, the Singularity http://world.std.com/~rjs/timesc.pdf (or infinity point http://world.std.com/~rjs/timesc.pdf ), Philosophy of science, the Problem of induction, Evolutionary (tree) models in biology and linguistics, Geography, Climate modelling and bush-fire detection, Environmental science, Image processing, Spectral analysis, Engineering, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Statistics and Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics, Computer science, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Computational intelligence, Computational science, Life sciences, Physics, Knowledge discovery, Ethics, Computational biology, Computational linguistics, Collective intelligence, structure and computing connectivity of random nets, effect of Heisenberg's principle on channel capacity, Arguments that entropy is not the arrow of time, and etc. See also Ray Solomonoff's Publications http://world.std.com/~rjs/pubs.html (and his http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/RaySolomonoffNewYorkTimesObituaryWedn13Jan2010.pdf obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/science/10solomonoff.html ). [...] I look forward to receiving your valuable paper contribution and attendance at the Conference. David Dowe General Chairman --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 18:04:47 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School July 25-29th This is a reminder that we are running a comprehensive 5 day Summer School in Digital Humanities this summer. It takes place from July 25th-29th, at Oxford University Computing Services and Wolfson College. The summer school introduces a range of digital research components to researchers, project managers, research assistants, or students working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital data for the humanities. Please visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/DHSS2011/ for details. The summer school is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS),Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), e-Research South, and Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster, under the direction of Sebastian Rahtz and Dr James Cummings at OUCS. The programme will consist of: • Two parallel streams of morning practical sessions using the well-equipped It teaching facilities at OUCS • Two parallel streams of afternoon workshops at Wolfson College concentrating on techniques and best practice • Guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts about their research projects Our guest plenary speakers for this year include: David De Roure, Professor of e-Science at OeRC Jeni Tennison, UK eGov guru John Coleman, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory Min Chen, Professor of Visualization at OeRC Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria Topics include: • Best practice for digital linguistic corpora • Building queryable document-based websites • Creating community collections and digital outreach • Creating digital texts in XML using the TEI • Working with maps • Critical apparatus and digital genetic editions in TEI • Database design for humanities projects • Digital Images for the Humanities • Digital library technologies and best practice • Getting funding: quality, impact, sustainability. • Introduction to copyright and open licensing • Introduction to document/project modelling • Introduction to XML databases • Managing Digital Humanities Projects • Practical RDF modelling and conversion • Publishing XML files using XSLT • RDF querying and visualization • TEI for linking text and facsimiles • Tools for analyzing linguistic corpora • Visualization using jQuery • Working with audio files -- Dr James Cummings, InfoDev, Computing Services, 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 Wed May 11 05:33:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3A813FF03; Wed, 11 May 2011 05:33:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 942BC13FEF2; Wed, 11 May 2011 05:33:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110511053309.942BC13FEF2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 05:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.10 events: posters at the 'zoo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 10. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:37:59 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Digital poster session at Kalamazoo For those of you attending the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, this week: The Medieval Academy of America's Digital Initiatives Advisory Board and Digital Medievalist have co-organized a poster session and reception, scheduled for Friday evening at 7pm in Fetzer 1035. The complete list of participants is below. Hope to see you there! ***** Julian Hendrix and Richard Pollard (UCLA), "Reconstructing the libraries of Carolingian Reichenau and St. Gall" Joshua Westgard (U. Tennessee), Demonstration of Bede Manuscripts Database James Ginther (Saint Louis University), Demonstration of T-PEN Eleonora Litta Modignani Picozzi (King's College London), Early English Laws and Gascon Rolls Daniel O'Connell (American Cusanus Society), Demonstration of the Cusanus-Portal Dot Porter (Indiana University), Demonstration of TILE (Text Image Linking Environment) Grant Simpson (Indiana University), "Proactive Preservation: What Every (Digital) Medievalist Should Know" Debra Lacoste (Wilfrid Laurier University), Cantus Database Demonstration Adam Oberlin (University of Minnesota) "XHS: eXtensible Handschrift - A Proposal for Open Source Manuscript Editing Software." Richard Harris (U. of Saskatchewan), Concordance to the Proverbs and Proverbial Materials in the Old Icelandic Sagas Kate Helsen (U. of Toronto), The Optical Neume Recognition Project Michael Drout (Wheaton College), Lexomics group from Wheaton College -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 May 11 06:00:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31853925F; Wed, 11 May 2011 06:00:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 24BEF39250; Wed, 11 May 2011 06:00:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110511060039.24BEF39250@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 06:00:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 11. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 06:57:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: desert island discs One of my favourite radio programmes is Desert Island Discs, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. When it was first aired, on 27 January 1942, it was described as, > a programme in which a well-known person is asked the question, if > you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight > gramophone records would you choose to have with you, assuming of > course, that you had a gramophone and an inexhaustible supply of > needles The choices have not in the nearly 70 years of its history converged on any canonical list of the best. They tell you in each case much about the person interviewed. They remind you of things you have forgotten, and put you in mind of others you somehow didn't know. But moving (as it were) in the opposite direction from this constantly expanding cultural cosmos is also a sense of a cosmos, not a chaos, not a miscellaneous jumble, or if that, then *a* jumble which itself is just as it should be. Especially if one listens to the programme on a dark, gray Saturday afternoon in a northern hemispheric winter, or via the Internet from the other side of the world. So my question: what creations relating to the digital humanities would you take with you to that desert island? What articles and books? What gizmos, presuming an inexhaustible supply of power to run them? And if your list is too short, then what orders would you put in, now in advance of your exile, for that which you would take with you if only it existed? (For more on the programme, see www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs.) Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 12 05:49:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05521428F0; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:49:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F00091428DD; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:49:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110512054930.F00091428DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 05:49:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.12 desert island discs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 12. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Holmes (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? [2] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (7) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 08:32:36 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? In-Reply-To: <20110511060039.24BEF39250@woodward.joyent.us> On 11-05-10 11:00 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: desert island discs > So my question: what creations relating to the digital humanities would > you take with you to that desert island? What articles and books? What > gizmos, presuming an inexhaustible supply of power to run them? No gizmos at all. They could only be expected to last a few months to a couple of years, even with inexhaustible power, and they'd inevitably get full of sand. I'd rather have my book inscribed on durable pigskin. It would probably be Middlemarch. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 15:23:17 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? In-Reply-To: <20110511060039.24BEF39250@woodward.joyent.us> I would welcome the solitude offered by the desert island to further explore the Dartmouth Dante Project. http://dante.dartmouth.edu/about.php The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia. Many ways to search and manifold discoveries to be made in this wonderful resource. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 12 05:50:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C44142933; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:50:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA8E7142926; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:50:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110512055029.EA8E7142926@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 05:50:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.13 cfp: Digital Medievalist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 13. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:42:25 +0200 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: CfP: Volume 7 of the Digital Medievalist Journal Call for Papers: Volume 7 of the Digital Medievalist Journal With the publication of volume 6 and a forthcoming special issue on the 2010 MARGOT conference, Digital Medievalist is now accepting papers for volume 7 of its on-line, refereed journal. We are asking for contributions of original research and scholarship that meet the mission statement of Digital Medievalist. Contributions should concern topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus. This includes notes on technological topics (markup and stylesheets, algorithms, tools and software, etc.), commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, and project reports. All contributions will be reviewed by authorities in humanities computing prior to publication. Journal submissions or enquiries should be emailed to: editors@digitalmedievalist.org Submissions guidelines are available at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/ With this forthcoming volume, we are re-establishing our "rolling issue" policy which means that contributions will be published as soon as they are ready for publication without firm deadlines. To allow inclusion in volume 7, however, submission before end of August 2011 is recommended. Digital Medievalist is an international web-based Community of Practice for medievalists working with digital media. Established in 2003, the project helps medievalists by providing a network for technical collaboration and instruction, exchange of expertise, and the development of best practice. The project operates an electronic mailing list and discussion forum, on-line refereed journal, news server for announcements and calls for papers, a wiki and FAQ. It also organises conference sessions at international medieval and humanities computing congresses. It is an elected organization and has developed some governing bylaws. The Digital Medievalist Project is overseen by an eight-member executive of medievalists with considerable experience in the use of digital media in the study of medieval topics. See our website at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org for more information. Malte Rehbein (Editor-In-Chief), Peter A. Stokes and Dan O'Donnell (Associate Editors), Rebecca Welzenbach (Reviews Editor) -- Dr. Malte Rehbein Universität Würzburg Zentrum für digitale Edition / Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie und Neuere Deutsche Literaturgeschichte Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14 Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg fon +49.(0)931.31.88773 email malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de web http://www.denkstaette.de IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 12 05:56:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356A5142A13; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:56:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 76F07142A0A; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:56:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110512055642.76F07142A0A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 05:56:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.14 events: London Seminar; DH2011; cognition X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 14. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Glen Worthey (49) Subject: David Rumsey to open DH2011 [2] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2011-12 [3] From: Nathaniel Bobbitt (73) Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION & COGNITION ON BIOLOGICAL GROUNDS --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 21:50:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2011-12 CALL FOR SEMINARS 2011-12 London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship (tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/) Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, (www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx) & Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, (www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/) The London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship invites seminars for the 2011-12 academic year, October through May. Seminars may be on any aspect of digital textual studies, whether literary, linguistic, philological, lexicographic, historical, cultural or otherwise. Seminars are held in the facilities of the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, University of London, Thursday evenings once per month. The London Seminar focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, humanities computing and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future for the book. Please contact the co-convenor, Professor Willard McCarty (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk), to discuss the possibilities. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 13:29:27 -0700 From: Glen Worthey Subject: David Rumsey to open DH2011 We are thrilled to announce that the DH2011 opening keynote will be given by David Rumsey, a renowned collector of historical maps, digital librarian, online publisher, builder, and philanthropist. Rumsey's lecture at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 19, in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on the Stanford University campus, is free and open to the public. Rumsey's lecture is titled/Reading Historical Maps Digitally: How Spatial Technologies Can Enable Close, Distant and Dynamic Interpretations/and here is its abstract: Maps are dense, complex information systems arranged spatially. While they share similarities with other visual artifacts, their uniqueness as spatially arranged visual information both allows for and demands special digital approaches to understand and reuse their content. Georeferencing, vectorization, virtual reality, image databases, and GIS-related tools all work to unite our eyes, minds, and computers in new ways that can make historical maps more valuable and accessible to humanists concerned with place and space over time. Rumsey will explore the tools and techniques that have implications for the ways digital humanists approach visual information. ******** David Rumsey's collection of more than 150,000 maps is one of the largest private map collections in the United States, and herecently announced his intention to donate it to the Stanford University Libraries http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/february4/oldmaps-020409.html for long-term preservation and scholarly access. With his growing online collection of more than 26,000 maps, available to all in high resolution and with expert cataloging, Rumsey is one of the most visible and important modern distributors of historical treasures for the common good, a pioneer Internet philanthropist, and a public Internet intellectual. Visit the David Rumsey Map Collection online athttp://www.davidrumsey.com/. With his experimental approaches to GIS and historic maps, his innovative use of virtual worlds for purveyance of serious scholarly materials, and his outspoken and concrete actions toward the building of a real public digital library, David Rumsey is a rare and exemplary figure of antiquarian in the digital world, and entrepeneur in the academy. Please join us for what is sure to be a stimulating and stunning opener for DH2011. ******** Registration for DH2011 is open and waiting for you at https://dh2011.stanford.edu/?page_id=311. Looking forward to seeing you all at Stanford in just about 40 days, Glen Worthey & Matthew Jockers your local hosts -- Glen Worthey, Digital Humanities Librarian Humanities Digital Information Service Stanford University Libraries (ph) +1-650-213-6759; (f) +1-650-723-9383 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:55:58 -0700 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION & COGNITION ON BIOLOGICAL GROUNDS We invite submissions to the Springer journal Cognitive Computation for a special issue on Pointing at Boundaries: Integrating Computation and Cognition on Biological Grounds. The submission deadline is May 16, 2011. ===================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== Spurred by the advancement in synthetic biology (Gibson et al., 2010) at the J. Craig Venter Research Institute the editors of Cognitive Computation Journal (Springer Publishers) invite submissions to a special issue on biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. This topic leads to further research questions on computation and the bio-signals produced by living organisms. We anticipate submissions will contribute to the identification of a new breed of technologies: 1.) bio- computing applications (synthetic biology); 2.) chemical/microbial induced biological configurations; 3.) enhancing cognition and animal models; and 4.) neuroengineering sensory circuits and clinical/biomedical research. This special issue will provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion that points towards the next step in cognition and computing through the excitability of biological substrates. The integration of computation and cognition on biological grounds has the prospect of pointing at a boundary system that is excitable, configurable, and manipulated within the framework of living organisms and their biological substrates. The next step in the development of natural computing hinges upon the development of biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. Authors are invited to submit unpublished research, original position papers, or literature reviews that address challenges unique to bio-inspired computation. Relevant areas of investigation and expertise include, but are not limited to: • synthetic biology, systematic biology, soft-computing• computation theory (membrane, natural, quantum, or evolutionary) • bio-nanotechnology, computational biology, computational linguistics • medical informatics (decision making, medical diagnostics, catastrophic disease research) • underlying spatial and self-modulating aspects of biological substrates (sRNA, siRNA, proteomics) • bio-optics: quorum sensing, bio-markers, molecular probes • neurobiology, gene regulation, neural circuits • pharmaceutical and biomedical cellular delivery systems • chemical ecology, interfacing with aliphatic odors (GPCR encoding) • neural signal transduction, neurotransmitters • neuroimaging, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology • mirror neurons, neuropsychology, theory of mind, simulation theory • swarm intelligence, theory of intelligence, consciousness • hierarchical temporal memory, heterogenous logic • neuroplasticity, learning, memory • “games with purpose” or collaborative task experimentation • bayesian biomedical techniques (clinical studies, morphological data, in vitro embryo selection) • translational cognition for decision support in critical care environments • soft-computing research and control of unknown diseases • “molecule to man” decision support in individualized e-health • biomedical informatics and pharmacogenomics • animal behavior, transgenics models • developmental biology, embryology • linguistic or philosophic barriers to bio-computing • cladistics, detecting and overcoming systematic errors in genome-scale phylogenies This special issue places into perspective computation and cognition from a post-genome viewpoint. Since the Human Genome Project recent discovieries suggest a bio-computation that specifies a more complex mechanisms along a multi-scale. Where a micro-meso-macro feedback occurs as a systemic self-organization with non-linear dynamics. Participation in this project proposes to advance the break with the "dogma" of one gene producing only one class of protein, assumed in the classic Monod-Changeux-Jacob model of the "Operon." Without the idea of a DNA "program" determining the phenotype of living systems the incubation of bio-computing may gain strides through experimental literature on "small RNAs" (sRNA) interfering with gene expression and protein production. Through the manipulation of biological substrates emerges the prospect to identify recipes for combinatorial, multidimensional, and topological organizations with a dynamics that escape conventional spatial or temporal-spatial representation. A biological substrate represents a self-contained symbolic and logical neighborhood. This special issue is expected to appear in JUN 2012. Post submissions at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/ Co-Editors Alfredo Pereira Jr., Eduardo Massad, Nathaniel Bobbitt bobbittn@cwu.edu Important Dates--------------------- Submission of full paper (to be received by): MAY 16, 2011 First notification of acceptance: AUG. 15, 2011 Submission of revised papers: OCT 15, 2011 Final notification to the authors: JAN 15, 2011 Submission of final/camera-ready papers: FEB 15, 2012 http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559?detailsPage=press _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 13 05:16:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E298B14280F; Fri, 13 May 2011 05:16:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5E7A61427FD; Fri, 13 May 2011 05:16:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110513051604.5E7A61427FD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 05:16:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.15 new on WWW: 155 billion American English words X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 15. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:11:06 -0600 From: Mark Davies Subject: 155 *billion* (155,000,000,000) word corpus of American English (Apologies for cross-postings) We’re pleased to announce a new corpus -- the Google Books (American English) corpus: http://googlebooks.byu.edu/. This corpus is based on the American English portion of the Google Books data (see http://ngrams.googlelabs.com and especially http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets). It contains 155 *billion* words (155,000,000,000) in more than 1.3 million books from the 1810s-2000s (including 62 billion words from just 1980-2009). The corpus has most of the functionality of the other corpora from http://corpus.byu.edu (e.g. COCA, COHA, and our interface to the BNC), including: searching by part of speech, wildcards, and lemma (and thus advanced syntactic searches), synonyms, collocate searches, frequency by decade (tables listing each individual string, or charts for total frequency), comparisons of two historical periods (e.g. collocates of "women" or "music" in the 1800s and the 1900s), and more. This American English corpus is just one of seven Google Books-based corpora that we hope to create in the next year or two (contingent on funding, which we are applying for in June 2011). If funded, the other corpora will include British English, English from the 1500s-1700s, and corpora of Spanish, French, and German (see the listing at http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets). Each of these corpora will be based on at least 50 billion words of data, and they should represent a nice addition to existing resources. The Google Books (American English) corpus is freely-available at http://googlebooks.byu.edu, and we hope that it is of value to you in your research and teaching. Best, 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 May 14 05:23:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628281438DC; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:23:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7472D1438C7; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:22:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110514052259.7472D1438C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 05:22:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.16 job at UCLA; studentship at Leicester X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 16. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Rugg, Annelie" (7) Subject: Job posting at UCLA Center for Digital Humanities [2] From: Barbara Bordalejo (4) Subject: Fwd: PhD funding: School of English, University of Leicester, UK --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:32:20 -0700 From: "Rugg, Annelie" Subject: Job posting at UCLA Center for Digital Humanities Greetings! The UCLA Center for Digital Humanities has an opening for an Instructional Technology Coordinator that may be of interest to you or someone you know. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me about the position. A direct link to the job listing is below: http://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=58038 Sincerely, Annelie Rugg, Ph.D. Director/Humanities CIO || UCLA Center for Digital Humanities 310.903.7691 || annelie@humnet.ucla.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 23:02:12 +0100 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Fwd: PhD funding: School of English, University of Leicester, UK PhD funding: School of English, University of Leicester, UK A PhD fee-waiver scholarship in the School of English at the University of Leicester is available for a research student. PhD proposals should be in the area Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature, or The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period. The award is for a student registering in October 2011 and covers fees up to £3,732 (the equivalent of Home/EU fees) for 3 years. Only new PhD students are eligible. The financial package covers full-time Home/EU fees only, but international and part-time students are encouraged to apply. Successful international students would themselves pay the difference between the Home/EU fee award and the international fee. Details can be found at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/postgraduate/funding Posted by John Hinks on behalf of Dr Kate Loveman, School of English, kjl18@le.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 14 05:24:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE7F14393D; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:24:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 60965143936; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:24:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110514052445.60965143936@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 05:24:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.17 publications: GIS; Fluxus Reader X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 17. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (7) Subject: Fluxus Reader online [2] From: Shawn Day (16) Subject: Irish Initiatives in Digital Humanities and GIS --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:53:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fluxus Reader online Dear colleagues, Some here will be very glad for the online publication of The Fluxus Reader, edited by Ken Friedman (Swinburne School of Design), at http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42234. For a description of Fluxus see the Wikipedia entry. Yours, WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:02:14 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Irish Initiatives in Digital Humanities and GIS This recently published article may be of interest to those involved in the application of spatial methodologies to literary studies: Abstract Machine – Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for literary and cultural studies: ‘Mapping Kavanagh’ Charles Travis, Research Associate, Trinity Long Room Hub International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. Volume 4, Page 17-37 Drawing upon previous theoretical and practical work in historical and qualitative applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), this paper, in Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's terminology, conceptualizes GIS as ‘an abstract machine’ which plays a ‘piloting role’ which does not ‘function to represent’ something real, but rather ‘constructs a real which is yet to come.’ To illustrate this digital humanities mapping methodology, the essay examines Irish writer Patrick Kavanagh's novel The Green Fool (1938) and epic poem The Great Hunger (1942) and their respective contrasting topophilic and topophobic renderings of landscape, identity and sense of place under the lens M.M. Bakhtin's ‘Historical Poetics’ (chronotope) to illuminate GIS's ability to engage in spatio-discursive visualization and analysis. The conceptualizations and practices discussed in this paper reconsider GIS software/hardware/techniques as a means to engage subjects of concern to literary and cultural studies commensurate with the recent strong interest in the geographical and spatial dimensions of these cognate areas. For Access to Journal Article: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ijhac.2011.0005 --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- 53.335373,-6.254219 --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- s.day@dho.ie --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1998 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 14 05:27:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17144143A24; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:27:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3EA0E143A11; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:27:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110514052751.3EA0E143A11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 05:27:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.18 events: eSocial Science; 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. 25, No. 18. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (2) Subject: FW: [Centernet] centerNet/CHCI Conference [2] From: I-CHASS (44) Subject: Networking eSocial Science Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 09:18:45 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: FW: [Centernet] centerNet/CHCI Conference Dear all, A reminder that HUMANITIES (DOT) NET: CURRENTS IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, the first joint conference of centerNet and CHCI will be taking place on June 15 at the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute. The conference will feature plenary speakers John Unsworth (Illinois) and Brian Cantwell Smith (Toronto), panels on Digital Disciplines and Digital Publics, a roundtable discussion on the role of funders and programs that go beyond the academy, and opportunities for discussion. A small registration fee of $25US will cover the direct costs. Schedule information can be found via the CHCI website, http://chcinetwork.org http://chcinetwork.org/ . In addition, CHCI invites all centerNet members to join their international membership group for their 2011 Annual Meeting, Cities Humanities Archives, on 13-14 June 2011, at the same location. Registration for the CHCI Annual Meeting is $75US per organization plus a $40US fee for the Meeting dinner on the evening of Monday 13 June. The $25US registration fee for the CHCI/centerNet meeting is waived for anyone attending the CHCI meeting. Complete information on both programs can be found at the CHCI website, http://chcinetwork.org http://chcinetwork.org/ , including travel and lodging information, and an online registration form. We hope to see you there! Best, Neil -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:24:19 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Networking eSocial Science Call for Papers The 2011 eSocial Science conference, “Networking eSocial Science,” invites papers, workshops, and exhibits addressing the following traditional and conference-related themes. The conference will be hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science from September 6-8, 2011 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Special sessions and workshops at the conference will be devoted to networking eSocial Science. Traditional themes: * Studies using eSocial Science methods and data * Case studies of social science research methods, applications, and practices enabled by cyberinfrastructures and tools * Benefits and challenges of large-scale, distributed, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research facilitated by cyberinfrastructure * New cyberinfrastructure and tools for sociological data integration, sharing, access management and security, data analysis, and curation * New cyberinfrastructure and tools for enabling news sources of data and new methods for data collection * Ethical issues, challenges, and solutions raised by cyberinfrastructure for the collection, integration, sharing, and analysis of personal, social, economic, and other data such as medical records or genomics * Case studies of socio-technical issues in the design and development of e-Research methods, technologies, and tools, including usability issues and solutions Conference themes: * Research on networks using eSocial Science methods * Reports on network tools applicable to eSocial Science * Case studies of existing networks in eSocial Science * Proposals for building networks among eSocial Science investigators, centers, and interested organizations Types of proposals Submissions will be accepted in one of four categories: 1. poster presentations; 2. short papers; 3. full papers; and 4. panel sessions. For all types of submission, please prepare a 750-1000 word abstract describing the research to be presented. Short papers will be given a strict ten-minute time limit for presentations. Full papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. For panels, the organizer should describe the panel topic and include the names and university, organization, or company of all speakers. Deadlines and submission instructions Electronic submissions will be accepted from May 16, 2011 until 11:59PM CST on Thursday, June 30, 2011. Potential presenters are encouraged to submit proposals as soon as possible because reviews of submissions will begin on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. Invitations to participate will be issued no later than Friday, July 15, 2011. To make a submission, please visit the submission page of the conference website: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu/esocialscience. Criteria for acceptance are: * The “innovative” nature of the proposal; * The proposal’s relevancy to global issues in technological inquiry; * The proposal’s argument in relation to a grand challenge; * The qualifications of the presenter(s). Awards Awards for best papers by senior scholars and by students will be presented. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 15 07:12:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECC4143290; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:12:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0543614327E; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:12:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110515071238.0543614327E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 07:12:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.19 job at Maryland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 19. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 08:22:32 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: job at Maryland: Assoc. Dir. Digital Cultures and Creativity program In-Reply-To: Digital Cultures and Creativity Associate Director The College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland invites applications for the position of Associate Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity, a new living/learning program for first- and second-year undergraduate students. Designed for the highly motivated 21st century student who was born into a world of windows and the web, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) provides an innovative curriculum and a residential learning community that combines art, imagination, and global citizenship with new media and new technologies. Depending on individual interest, DCC students pursue activities as varied as digital music and video production, digital art, computer game design, creative electronic writing, virtual worlds, and developing online communities. DCC is housed within the Honors College and sponsored primarily by the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU), with co-sponsorship from the iSchool, the Department of Computer Science, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). The University of Maryland is a “Top 20” ranked major public research university, located in the Washington DC/ Baltimore metroplex, five miles from the District of Columbia, with its concentrated cultural, artistic, research, and public policy resources. As the flagship university, the University of Maryland’s academic programs are sought after as partners for a wide variety of initiatives with such cultural institutions as the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the galleries and theatres of the nation’s capital. The position is initially for 3 years with possibility of renewal. Appointment is to the faculty rank of lecturer. Salary: $55,000 plus benefits. This is a 12-month appointment and some evening and weekend work will be expected on an as-needed basis. An appropriate terminal degree in hand is required. Academic work must include a significant focus on digital research, scholarship, and/or creative practice and further research activity and professional development are expected. Experience teaching and/or advising at the college-level required. Must have extensive knowledge and use of digital technologies in the classroom. Excellent organization and communication skills required. Position Description and Duties: Teaching and Advising The Associate Director will staff one course per semester in the program, such as Introduction to Digital Cultures and Creativity, History of Machine-Encoded Creative Expression, Research Practicum, or a new course designed with DCC staff. The Associate Director will also devote significant time to advising and counseling individual students, including their transition from the program to a regular major. Administrative Responsibilities Admissions: Coordinate and implement programming at all stages of the annual recruitment cycle, including open houses, information sessions, etc. Serve as the primary contact person for prospective students and their families during the recruitment cycle. Play a primary role in the selection of students for the incoming class, which includes serving on the general Honors College admissions committee. Work with Resident Life, Honors College, College of Arts and Humanities and other campus units in the development of recruitment materials and publicity for DCC. Programming and Planning: Design and implement DCC co-curricular programming and special events with the director and DCC fellows. Management: Supervise program interns, teaching assistants; supervise, with the director, all graduate assistants. General Administration: Work with scheduling officers in ARHU and Honors College to develop each semester’s course offerings and to approve selected Honors (HONR) courses for the DCC citation. Attend administrative meetings across the campus, including Undergraduate Program Director’s group meetings in ARHU and Resident Life Living-Learning Program directors meetings. Process basic financial paperwork, including reimbursement and simple procurement (e.g., ordering office supplies, printing orders, copy machine program, etc.) For best consideration, interested candidates should apply by June 15. It is expected that the appointment will begin August 1, 2011. Please send a letter of application detailing scholarly/creative work and teaching experience and interests; a CV; names and contact information of three references; and an URL to samples of research or creative activity to Professor Hasan Elahi, Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity Program via e-mail at helahi@umd. edu. Electronic submissions preferred. Hard copy applications can be sent to Professor Elahi at Department of Art, 1211E Art/Sociology Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1311. The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 07:16:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D66143340; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:16:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1D4C914332F; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:16:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110515071629.1D4C914332F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 07:16:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.20 PhD studentship at Wales X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 20. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (90) Subject: [2] From: Willard McCarty (36) Subject: PhD studentship in Digital Humanities at University of Wales --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 19. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 08:22:32 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: job at Maryland: Assoc. Dir. Digital Cultures and Creativity program In-Reply-To: Digital Cultures and Creativity Associate Director The College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland invites applications for the position of Associate Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity, a new living/learning program for first- and second-year undergraduate students. Designed for the highly motivated 21st century student who was born into a world of windows and the web, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) provides an innovative curriculum and a residential learning community that combines art, imagination, and global citizenship with new media and new technologies. Depending on individual interest, DCC students pursue activities as varied as digital music and video production, digital art, computer game design, creative electronic writing, virtual worlds, and developing online communities. DCC is housed within the Honors College and sponsored primarily by the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU), with co-sponsorship from the iSchool, the Department of Computer Science, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). The University of Maryland is a “Top 20” ranked major public research university, located in the Washington DC/ Baltimore metroplex, five miles from the District of Columbia, with its concentrated cultural, artistic, research, and public policy resources. As the flagship university, the University of Maryland’s academic programs are sought after as partners for a wide variety of initiatives with such cultural institutions as the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the galleries and theatres of the nation’s capital. The position is initially for 3 years with possibility of renewal. Appointment is to the faculty rank of lecturer. Salary: $55,000 plus benefits. This is a 12-month appointment and some evening and weekend work will be expected on an as-needed basis. An appropriate terminal degree in hand is required. Academic work must include a significant focus on digital research, scholarship, and/or creative practice and further research activity and professional development are expected. Experience teaching and/or advising at the college-level required. Must have extensive knowledge and use of digital technologies in the classroom. Excellent organization and communication skills required. Position Description and Duties: Teaching and Advising The Associate Director will staff one course per semester in the program, such as Introduction to Digital Cultures and Creativity, History of Machine-Encoded Creative Expression, Research Practicum, or a new course designed with DCC staff. The Associate Director will also devote significant time to advising and counseling individual students, including their transition from the program to a regular major. Administrative Responsibilities Admissions: Coordinate and implement programming at all stages of the annual recruitment cycle, including open houses, information sessions, etc. Serve as the primary contact person for prospective students and their families during the recruitment cycle. Play a primary role in the selection of students for the incoming class, which includes serving on the general Honors College admissions committee. Work with Resident Life, Honors College, College of Arts and Humanities and other campus units in the development of recruitment materials and publicity for DCC. Programming and Planning: Design and implement DCC co-curricular programming and special events with the director and DCC fellows. Management: Supervise program interns, teaching assistants; supervise, with the director, all graduate assistants. General Administration: Work with scheduling officers in ARHU and Honors College to develop each semester’s course offerings and to approve selected Honors (HONR) courses for the DCC citation. Attend administrative meetings across the campus, including Undergraduate Program Director’s group meetings in ARHU and Resident Life Living-Learning Program directors meetings. Process basic financial paperwork, including reimbursement and simple procurement (e.g., ordering office supplies, printing orders, copy machine program, etc.) For best consideration, interested candidates should apply by June 15. It is expected that the appointment will begin August 1, 2011. Please send a letter of application detailing scholarly/creative work and teaching experience and interests; a CV; names and contact information of three references; and an URL to samples of research or creative activity to Professor Hasan Elahi, Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity Program via e-mail at helahi@umd. edu. Electronic submissions preferred. Hard copy applications can be sent to Professor Elahi at Department of Art, 1211E Art/Sociology Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1311. The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 08:15:35 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD studentship in Digital Humanities at University of Wales > Subject: PhD studentship in Digital Humanities at University of Wales > Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:33:02 +0100 > From: Lorna M. Hughes Dear Humanists, Three PhD Scholarships at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies The University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies is located in Aberystwyth, adjacent to the National Library of Wales. It is a dedicated research centre which carries out team-based projects on the languages, literatures, culture and history of Wales and the other Celtic countries. It is currently running projects in the following areas: the early history of the Celtic languages, medieval Welsh poetry, Romanticism in Wales 1750-1900, the place-names of Wales, the correspondence of Edward Lhwyd, and stained glass in Wales. The Centre also houses the University of Wales Dictionary Unit. For further information on the work of the Centre see http://www.wales.ac.uk/cawcs The Centre will be taking postgraduate students for the first time in autumn 2011 Students will be supervised by scholars of international renown, and will work alongside postdoctoral fellows in a supportive environment with excellent research facilities. Three PhD scholarships are offered for 2011 entry. Each scholarship is for a period of three years, and will cover living expenses (currently £13,590 per annum), full-time UK/EU fees and up to £1,000 per annum for research expenses. Applications are invited from students wishing to work in any of the Centre’s research areas. One of the three scholarships is specifically for work on digital humanities in Celtic Studies (in collaboration with the Chair of Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales, Professor Lorna Hughes). Applicants are expected to have a first class or upper-second class degree in a relevant subject. Enquiries may be made to the Director of Postgraduate Studies, Dr David Parsons, D.Parsons@wales.ac.uk, or to Professor Lorna Hughes lorna.hughes@llgc.org.uk Application forms are available online at: http://www.wales.ac.uk/cawcs Closing date for applications: 10 June 2011 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 15 07:17:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CAC1433B0; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:17:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BA50814339A; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:17:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110515071756.BA50814339A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 07:17:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.21 events: other minds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 21. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 07:54:07 +0100 From: Nicole Bremkens Subject: Interdisciplinary Conference Announcement Interdisciplinary Conference Understanding Other Minds Embodied Interaction and Higher-Order Reasoning September 20-21, 2011 A cooperation between the BMBF project OTHER MINDS (Bochum/Cologne) & Mindlab and Gnosis Research Center (Aarhus) Venue: LWL-Universitätsklinik Alexandrinenstraße 1-3 44780 Bochum Germany Contact and Registration: Bochum.Conference@rub.de Home: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/otherminds-bochum/index.html Call for Posters Please submit an abstract (approx. 200 words) by August 1, 2011 to Bochum.Conference@gmail.com We accept poster submission on mindreading and interaction, mindreading and psychopathology, mindreading and emotions, as well as mindreading and models from all disciplines. 1st Day, 20th September Section: Interaction and Mindreading 9.15-9.30 Registration and Poster Hanging 09.30-10.05 John Michael (Aarhus) and Soren Overgaard (Copenhagen) Taking interaction seriously – but not too seriously 10.05-10.40 Bert Timmermans (Cologne) Towards a second-person neuroscience 10.40-11.15 Birgit Knudson (MPI Nijmegen) Infants’ appreciation of others’ beliefs in interpersonal interactions 11.15-11.30 Commentary Leon de Bruin (Bochum) 11.30-12.00 Coffee Break Section: Psychopathology and Mindreading 12.00-12.35 Anika Fiebich (Bochum) Three levels of intersubjectivity: cognitive interrelations and disorders 12.35-13.10 Antonia Hamilton (Nottingham) Beyond mirror neurons: responding to and understanding others 13.10-13.45 Christine Heinisch (Bochum) Recognizing and generation of emotional expressions in Schizophrenia 13.45-14.00 Commentary Leonhard Schilbach (Cologne) 14.00-15.00 Lunch Break 15.00-16.00 Poster-Session Special Event: Controversies in the Cognitive Sciences How useful is fMRI in psychiatry? 16.00-16.20 Introduction Joshua Skewes 16.20-16.50 Max Coltheart (Sidney) 16.50-17.20 Kai Vogeley (Cologne) 17.20-18.00 General Discussion 19.00 Conference Dinner 2nd Day, 21th September Section: Emotions and Mindreading 09.30-10.05 Joel Krueger (Copenhagen) Shared Emotions and Social Understanding 10.05-10.40 Anna Welpinghus (Bochum) Emotion recognition as pattern recognition 10.40-11.15 Marielle Stel (Tilburg) Effects of mimicry and facial feedback processes in understanding others’ emotions 11.15-11.30 Commentary Tobias Schlicht (Bochum) 11.30-12.00 Coffee Break Section: Alternative Approaches to Mindreading 12.00-12.45 Albert Newen (Bochum) Understanding Others: The Person Model Theory 12.45-13.30 Dan Hutto (Hertfordshire) Folk Psychology: Sticking to the High Road 13.30-14.15 Commentary Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus) and General Discussion -- Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institut für Philosophie II Sekretariat Prof. Newen GA 3/153 44801 Bochum Tel.: 0234/32-28339 Fax: 0234/32-14963 Email: nicole.bremkens@rub.de sekretariat-newen@rub.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 Mon May 16 05:24:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC88144D5C; Mon, 16 May 2011 05:24:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E46E4144D46; Mon, 16 May 2011 05:24:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110516052446.E46E4144D46@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 05:24:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.22 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 22. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 12:52:24 +0200 From: procchi@luiss.it Subject: on tool Recently I read: The car is a tool, The motorcycle is a tool, Radio is a tool TV is a tool …. The computer is a tool Everything you want to use as a tool is a tool. Obviously one learns how to use the object that he/she will adopt, and attends a course. Concepts are unnecessary to such a course which delivers operational contents. However if you change your mind and mean to discover the how and the why of your tool, if you like to examine the root-causes of this instrument, the principles that embody this implement, you attend university lessons that will improve your knowledge and will make you better conscious of your professional actions. As an example the driving school teaches the layman to drive a car, if he likes to be aware of the combustion engine the layman attends lessons on thermodynamics and rises the level of knowledge in motoring. This is not the case of computers. Thousands of operators deliver courses that are operational however if you like to go deep into computing, universities do not offer satisfactory lessons, they are unable to enhance your culture in the field, they do not broaden your view over technology. The reason is easy: theoretical researches on the principles of computing are stuck to the pole since decades. Despite great emphasis and presupposition experts refer to theoretical models alien to a number of modern digital solutions, they cite authors who lived more than fifty years ago, they assume as exhaustive theories that cover narrow areas. Humanists are sensitive to cultural values and should not ignore the current state of the art. I quote the recent debate “What is computing? What is information?” hosted by the ACM Ubiquity (http://ubiquity.acm.org/symposia.cfm) Best Paolo Rocchi Docent Emeritus IBM via Shangai 53, 00144 Roma Professor LUISS University via Alberoni 7, 00198 Roma _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 17 05:19:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0263E144964; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:19:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1CC15144954; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517051859.1CC15144954@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 23. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:54:47 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.22 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110516052446.E46E4144D46@woodward.joyent.us> While I am happy to agree with Prof. Rocchi — in the abstract, of course — the understanding of even the most primitive of tools, say the principles of finding the right flint, slate, obsidian, the chipping and making of a spearpoint, a knife for dissection of the mammoth, another flint for a spark for a cooking fire...all those aspects of feeding, the culturing of my tribe, and children, whether I am woman or man, is already divided into the tool-makers, and users, who need not know how to chip, or even hunt, if the hunters go out. On the other hand, Rocchi's concern re those who might want to know how to make gasoline, after refining crude oil, after drilling for it, after hunting for it, after studying geology at university, and so on back, might be useless tomorrow. I recommend Lem's haunting novel, FIASCO. S. Lem was both an engineer and highly-cultivated European style Humanist. I wont go further with that novel here, because it has to be read, to be felt, felt to be contemplated, contemplated to be understood, and understood to make my argument about denial/acceptance; ignorance/knowledge, etc. All the understanding of anything whatever is as nothing to the newborn child, who will, one way or another grow up the same primitive being whose bones may or may lie in the vicinity of the earliest cave-dwelling painters of hunting magic, if that is what those image are. Jascha Kessler On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 22. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 12:52:24 +0200 > From: procchi@luiss.it > Subject: on tool > > > Recently I read: > The car is a tool, > The motorcycle is a tool, > Radio is a tool > TV is a tool > …. > The computer is a tool > > Everything you want to use as a tool is a tool. > > Obviously one learns how to use the object that he/she will adopt, and > attends a course. Concepts are unnecessary to such a course which delivers > operational contents. However if you change your mind and mean to discover > the how and the why of your tool, if you like to examine the root-causes of > this instrument, the principles that embody this implement, you attend > university lessons that will improve your knowledge and will make you better > conscious of your professional actions. As an example the driving school > teaches the layman to drive a car, if he likes to be aware of the combustion > engine the layman attends lessons on thermodynamics and rises the level of > knowledge in motoring. > > This is not the case of computers. > > Thousands of operators deliver courses that are operational however if you > like to go deep into computing, universities do not offer satisfactory > lessons, they are unable to enhance your culture in the field, they do not > broaden your view over technology. > > The reason is easy: theoretical researches on the principles of computing > are stuck to the pole since decades. Despite great emphasis and > presupposition experts refer to theoretical models alien to a number of > modern digital solutions, they cite authors who lived more than fifty years > ago, they assume as exhaustive theories that cover narrow areas. Humanists > are sensitive to cultural values and should not ignore the current state of > the art. I quote the recent debate “What is computing? What is information?” > hosted by the ACM Ubiquity (http://ubiquity.acm.org/symposia.cfm) > > Best > Paolo Rocchi > > Docent Emeritus > IBM > via Shangai 53, 00144 Roma > > Professor > LUISS University > via Alberoni 7, 00198 Roma -- 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 May 17 05:21:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065C0144A89; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:21:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55DED144A5A; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:21:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517052107.55DED144A5A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:21:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.24 job at BYU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 24. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:53:23 -0600 From: Jarom McDonald Subject: job at Brigham Young University The Humanities Technology and Research Support Center at Brigham Young University is seeking to hire an assistant research professor whose responsibilities will include program director of the Computers in the Humanities (CHum) program and digital humanities research consultant. CHum is an academic program currently offering a minor in Humanities Computing and courses on the use of digital technologies in humanities disciplines. The ideal candidate for the position should be able to manage all aspects of developing, coordinating, and assessing a university academic program and also to contribute to the Center's broader goals of integrating digital humanities into the College curricula and faculty research through both conceptual and applied technical consultation. The position to be filled is a full-time professional faculty position with possible continuing faculty status (BYU’s equivalent of “tenure”). Summary of Responsibilities Plan, organize, and direct the Computers in the Humanities (CHum) program Teach courses in the CHum program and mentor students seeking a CHum minor Evaluate and assess CHum program curricula, course curricula, and instructor activity, focusing especially on keeping abreast of current trends in digital humanities scholarship and appropriate pedagogy, of emerging technology tools, software, and skills, and of evolving student needs and expectations Consult with college faculty on digital humanities research projects and inquiries Assist in coordinating student support of approved digital humanities projects Summary of Qualifications PhD strongly preferred, though highly experienced M.A. candidates may apply Experience in and strong understanding of college-level pedagogical vision, planning, and assessment Knowledge of and experience in curriculum development and instructor training Good knowledge of the digital humanities and the problems faced in this emerging discipline Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and to communicate well with both students and faculty from a variety of disciplines and a number of different career paths Significant experience with and understanding of fundamental web technologies (HTTP/HTML5/CSS3/Javascript), as well as strong experience in one or more of the following programming languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Java, C derivitaves, or other major language Fluency in a foreign language a plus To apply for this position, please see full job description and complete the application online at https://yjobs.byu.edu. (Posting # 110216) Brigham Young University, an equal opportunity employer, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with disabilities. All faculty are required to abide by the university’s honor code and dress and grooming standards. Preference is given to qualified candidates who are members in good standing of the affiliated church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 17 05:23:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B788144B26; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:23:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3EF55144B1A; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:23:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517052305.3EF55144B1A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.25 new publications for Kindle and online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 25. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:49:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: Publication In-Reply-To: <304856462.212261.1305564522253.JavaMail.root@mail11.pantherlink.uwm.edu> I am pleased to announce that I have published on Kindle my translation with introduction and explanatory materials of Josef Klausner's: מה לעשות‪?‬ המשבר בספרות העברית (What should be done? The Crisis in Hebrew Literature) Search for it as "what should be done the crisis". If you do not have a Kindle or compatible item, you will be able to see it for free by July 1 on my website https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www > New This remarkable document was published just a century ago in Kraków to beg for the revivification of Hebrew by contributing a ruble a year to societies trying to achieve this goal; at the same time he marshaled arguments against using Yiddish or other European languages as the language of the Jewish people. At that time there were no native speakers of Hebrew. Compare that with today when most public libraries in the country have numerous English *translations* from Hebrew of novels by contemporary writers like David Grossman, and poets like Amichai. Reminder: My edition of *The Jews' Synagogue* by J. Buxtorf is still available on Kindle. Also: Icon Programming for Humanists free online at http://unicon.org/books/humanist.pdf or The softbound print edition may be ordered at http://unicon.org/books/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 17 05:24:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDAC144B58; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:24:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 00764144B49; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:24:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517052421.00764144B49@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:24:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.26 events: cfp for Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 26. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:51:22 +0200 From: Florian Willems Subject: Last CFP: DARE Conference, Cologne, October 25-28 Dear Colleagues, please find attached the second and last call for papers for the First International DARE Conference at the University of Cologne, October 25-28, 2011. If your paper is accepted, the Thomas-Insitute, with generous help from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, will cover travel and accommodation expenses for the speakers. Best, Florian Willems. 2nd Call for Papers *Extended Deadline: May 23rd, 2011* In Cordoba more than 800 years ago, Ibn Rushd or – as the Latin scholars called him – Averroes was working on his commentaries on Aristotle, Galen, Ptolemy, and Alghazel, composing and constantly revising his treatises on Philosophy, Medicine, Astronomy, Islamic Law, and Theology. The preserved manuscripts bear witness to the Transformationof Averroes’s works, starting with his own efforts to rewrite them. Their Translation from the original Arabic to Latin and Hebrew and their manuscript Transmission have resulted in a highly convoluted body of texts. The multiple attempts to establish a satisfactory Edition of Averroes’s works - begun during the Renaissance and recommenced with the onset of historical scholarship in the late 19th century - have indeed produced a number of remarkable critical editions and studies. On the whole, however, they made the textual tradition even more complex – not to say complicated. This is the moment for Cologne, the moment for a fresh attempt at tackling the described complexity by means of the digital medium. The Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), initiated by the Thomas-Institut in 2010 and funded by the German Research Foundation, intends to provide all the means for studying Averroes, while at the same time offering a platform to discuss and annotate the texts. The planned conference constitutes the first possibility to explore this web-based repository of digital texts, metadata, manuscript images, and corresponding tools designed to document and make accessible the whole range of testimonies of Averroes’s works – from manuscripts and incunabula to critical editions, and including the Latin, Arabic and Hebrew traditions. At the same time, the conference provides an opportunity for the International Averroes Commission to hold a meeting and to discuss strategies for future research, especially concerning the critical edition of Averroes’s works, Corpus Commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem. Philological issues: Whoever starts to study a text by Averroes is immediately confronted with at least three types of difficulties: First, there are Averroes’s changes of position from one work to another. Secondly, traces of massive rewriting have been detected in virtually every work of Averroes. Thus, one and the same text often exists in two or more versions and may contain several passages that date back to different periods of Averroes’s intellectual career and which have not necessarily been harmonized completely. Thirdly, the historical hazards of reception, translation and transmission have led to a situation where a full picture of Averroes’s thought cannot be gained from the Arabic originals only because too many of these are lost or represent a different – sometimes earlier and less extensive – version than the extant Hebrew and Latin translations. All these difficulties combine to create, in some cases, almost inextricable problems where the translator’s vocabulary, the variant readings, the parallel passages in other works extant in other languages and the changing position of Averroes himself have to be taken into account, or rather: each of these stumbling blocks has to be circumvented with the aid of the others. The conference aims at advancing further into the mesh of these interconnected problems thus shedding new light on the genesis of the Corpus Averroicum. Technical issues: DARE involves not only problems of mass digitization, deep archival storage, metadata and manuscript mark-up, but also the quite unique case of the different language traditions and the semantic connections of different origins in Averroes’s works. A major question is how scholars could be able to track these connections between traditions, origins, and raw data, on which editions are based, with the aid of the electronic corpus and tools. We will explore the field of collaborative, distributed research environments and basic text work, semantic connections and technologies, as well as interface design and visualization of content, and look at long-term archival strategies and the problems of collaborative work in the age of copyright. From Cordoba to Cologne – After nearly two years of work on a digital edition and research platform for the study of Averroes we as members of the DARE group would like to enter into a broad discussion with the International Averroes and Digital Humanities community. As indicated, the starting-point of the presented papers should be philological, technical or transdisciplinary: a route of transmission, a particularity of translation, a new technology in digital philology... -- Florian Willems M.A. DARE - 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 17 05:33:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34144144F68; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:33:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FB80144F27; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:33:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517053312.3FB80144F27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:33:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.27 hiatus X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 27. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 06:29:51 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Dear colleagues, Humanist will fall silent for the next few days, probably until the weekend, while its Editor changes hemispheres (geological, that is), rematerialises (metaphorically, that is) and gets himself reconnected. Stay tuned. Please do not adjust your set. And keep your curiosities coming. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 17 05:35:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F22144036; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:35:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D363144025; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:35:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517053513.2D363144025@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:35:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.28 new on WWW: D-Lib 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. 25, No. 28. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:46:56 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The May/June 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine is nowavailable Greetings: The May/June 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, several short pieces in 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 the American-Rails.com web site, courtesy of Adam Burns. The articles include: Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Article by Yuan Li, University of Syracuse and Meghan Banach, University of Massachusetts Amherst Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections Article by Malcolm Wolski, Joanna Richardson and Robyn Rebollo, Griffith University, Australia Model-Oriented Scientific Research Reports Article by Robert Allen, Drexel University JPEG 2000 for Long-term Preservation: JP2 as a Preservation Format Article by Johan van der Knijff, KB / National Library of the Netherlands 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 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers@dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 17 05:41:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483E21442CD; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:41:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F027D1442B9; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:41:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 25.29 events: digital humanities in Göttingen; digital classics in London From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517054125.F027D1442B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:41:25 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 29. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Felix Lohmeier (34) Subject: Digital Humanities Festakt am 12. und 13. Juli 2011 in Göttingen [2] From: Willard McCarty (60) Subject: Digital Classicist Seminar, Summer 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:09:02 +0100 From: Felix Lohmeier Subject: Digital Humanities Festakt am 12. und 13. Juli 2011 in Göttingen Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, zu unserem Digital Humanities Festakt am 12. und 13. Juli 2011 möchten wir Sie herzlich nach Göttingen einladen. Anlässe sind die Eröffnung des Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) und die Vorstellung der produktionsreifen Version 1.0 von TextGrid. Wir stellen verschiedene Initiativen vor, die die Forschung und Lehre durch neue Forschungsinfrastrukturen, den Einsatz digitaler Methoden in den Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften sowie die Vernetzung auf lokaler, nationaler und europäischer Ebene unterstützen. Die Vorhaben, deren Umsetzung auch vom Wissenschaftsrat jüngst empfohlen wurde, verfolgen wir - sowohl auf regionaler Ebene an der Universität Göttingen -> Nds.-MWK-Projekt Digital Humanities, - auf nationaler Ebene -> BMBF-Projekt TextGrid - als auch auf internationaler Ebene -> EU-Projekt DARIAH. Für den 12. Juli ist ein Festakt in der Paulinerkirche im Historischen Gebäude der SUB Göttingen mit zahlreichen Gästen aus Politik und Wissenschaft geplant, u.a. der niedersächsischen Wissenschaftsministerin Prof. Johanna Wanka (angefragt), Universitätspräsidentin Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel, Stiftungsratsvorsitzender Dr. Wilhelm Krull, Dr. Haim Gertner vom EU-Projekt European Holocaust Research Infrastructure und Dr. Tobias Blanke vom King's College London. Auf dem Göttinger "Roten Sofa" werden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler über Erfahrungen, Chancen und Schwierigkeiten der Digital Humanities diskutieren. Am 13. Juli wird das von zehn Verbundpartnern getragene BMBF-geförderte Projekt TextGrid Schulungen zu seiner Virtuellen Forschungsumgebung sowie weiterführende Workshops zum Thema Digital Humanities anbieten. Bitte melden Sie sich über unsere Internet-Seite www.textgrid.de/festakt zu der Veranstaltung an (Anmeldeschluss: 31. Mai). Wir freuen uns über Ihr Interesse und auf Ihre Teilnahme. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau (Direktor der SUB Göttingen) Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer (Vorstandsvorsitzender des GCDH) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 06:39:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Classicist Seminar, Summer 2011 Institute of Classical Studies Digital Classicist Seminar, Summer 2011 Fridays at 16:30 in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU June 3 Kathryn Piquette and Charles Crowther (Oxford), Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical material June 10 David Scott and Mike Jackson (Edinburgh University), Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR): Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data June 17 Charlotte Roueché and Charlotte Tupman (King's College London), Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer June 24 Alessandro Vatri (Oxford University), HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study July 1 Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”), Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures: From practice to requirements July 8 Timothy Hill (New York University), Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity July 15 Elton Barker (Open University) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton), Mine the GAP: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus July 22 Sandra Blakely (Emory), Modeling the mysteries: GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace July 29 Marco Büchler (Leipzig), Bringing Modern Spell Checking Approaches to Ancient Texts: Automatized Suggestions for Incomplete Words August 5 Daniel Pett (British Museum), The Portable Antiquities Scheme: a tool for studying the Ancient landscape of England and Wales August 12 Valentina Asciutti & Stuart Dunn (King's College London), Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital 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/ -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 17 05:51:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A3314443B; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D325914442B; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:51:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517055105.D325914442B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:51:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.30 events: cfp for Knowledge/Culture/Social Change X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 30. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 09:07:23 +0000 From: Reena Dobson Subject: Call for Papers - Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference - 7-9 November 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference 7-9 November 2011 Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr/kcsc The humanities and social sciences today struggle to come to terms with the explosion of knowledge in increasingly complex, diverse and networked societies. Which forms of knowledge work best for managing, challenging or engaging with rapid social change? Do new kinds of information play an increasing role in economic and social management? Do these changes raise questions about what ?knowledge? is, or is to become? What are the new rules for engagement between academic and other knowledge practices and institutions? This conference will bring together theorists and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and knowledge institutions to debate these questions in relation to the following themes: * Shifting knowledge maps. Discipline boundaries are increasingly permeable within the humanities and social sciences and across these and the natural and physical sciences. Yet it often proves difficult to connect these new knowledge maps both within academia and across sectors (university / government; public / private; NGO / university / government, etc.). Knowledge engagement is more problematic, just as it is becoming more important and desirable. How are these problems best addressed? * Knowledge and globalisation. Processes of globalisation undermine the relevance of purely national knowledge frameworks, while the hegemony of Western knowledge systems is challenged on many fronts: the increasing influence of Asia; the resurgent interest in indigenous and community knowledges; and the competing perspectives of multiple modernities. How can the relations between these multiple knowledge practices best be engaged with? * A (Post)humanities? The nature / culture dualism is under challenge from a diverse range of knowledges (ecological, post-rational, feminist, animal studies, etc). These interventions engage the global predicament presented by climate change, blurring the boundaries between natural and social environments, while medical and nano technologies radically restructure our sense of the boundaries and constituents of personhood. How can we now best understand our entanglements with the more-than-human? * Digital knowledge practices. New electronic and digital technologies are rapidly changing the mechanisms and speeds of knowledge flows with profound consequences for intellectual property and the practices of knowledge institutions, while also enabling new ways of knowing that significantly challenge older relations of knowledge production. How can our practices respond to these new knowledge possibilities? * Knowledge and governance. New kinds of data ? quantitative and qualitative ? and methods and techniques of visualisation play an increasingly important role in economic and social management, while science / arts divisions are undermined by new kinds of art / science practice. Knowledge institutions and technologies play new roles in processes of social and cultural change; e.g. archives, museums, science centres, statistical and other data banks. In what ways do these new knowledge practices actively intervene and shape social life? KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---------------- * Dawn Casey, Director, Powerhouse Museum; Chair, Indigenous Business Australia. Title: Museums, Conflicting Cultures and the Politics of Knowing * Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Title: The Human after Climate Change * Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester; a Director in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. Title: Surface Dramas, Knowledge Gaps and Scalar Shifts: Infrastructural Engineering in Sacred Spaces * Bruno Latour, Scientific Director, Professor and Vice President for Research, Sciences-Po [via videolink]. Title: Social Theory, Tarde, and the Web * Nikolas Rose, James Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics; Director, BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society. Title: The Human Sciences in the Century of Biology PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS ------------------------- Paper and panel proposals addressing the conference themes are invited. Proposals spanning one or more themes are especially welcome. * Individual paper proposals (200-300 words) * Panel proposals (200 words for the panel concept and 200-300 words on each panel paper) Please visit the following URL to submit your abstract: https://www.conferenceonline.com/index.cfm?page=booking&object=abstract&forceHB=1&id=203 The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday 3 June 2011. ORGANISING COMMITTEE CONTACTS ----------------------------- Tony Bennett: t.bennett@uws.edu.au Bob Hodge: b.hodge@uws.edu.au Kay Anderson: k.anderson@uws.edu.au Sonja van Wichelen: s.vanwichelen@uws.edu.au Administrative contact - Reena Dobson: r.dobson@uws.edu.au CONFERENCE WEBSITE ------------------ Please visit the conference website regularly for updates: http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr/kcsc _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 18 06:03:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B463145B6B; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:03:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 21524145B53; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:03:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110518060337.21524145B53@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:03:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.31 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 31. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial [2] From: del thomas Ph D (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:22:36 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110517051859.1CC15144954@woodward.joyent.us> Plato's discussion of the difference between the users of a technology and the producers of it in Book X of the Republic may also be of interest here: That there are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them? Yes. And the excellence or beauty or truth of every structure, animate or inanimate, and of every action of man, is relative to the use for which nature or the artist has intended them. True. Then the user of them must have the greatest experience of them, and he must indicate to the maker the good or bad qualities which develop themselves in use; for example, the flute-player will tell the flute-maker which of his flutes is satisfactory to the performer; he will tell him how he ought to make them, and the other will attend to his instructions? Of course. The one knows and therefore speaks with authority about the goodness and badness of flutes, while the other, confiding in him, will do what he is told by him? True. The instrument is the same, but about the excellence or badness of it the maker will only attain to a correct belief; and this he will gain from him who knows, by talking to him and being compelled to hear what he has to say, whereas the user will have knowledge? http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.11.x.html The parallel does not completely hold up, as computer "makers" are also among the most proficient computer "users," but this difference may make for an interesting point of discussion about the ways in which a computer is so very different as a tool. Jim R > While I am happy to agree with Prof. Rocchi — in the abstract, of course — > the understanding of even the most primitive of tools, say the principles of > finding the right flint, slate, obsidian, the chipping and making of a > spearpoint, a knife for dissection of the mammoth, another flint for a spark > for a cooking fire...all those aspects of feeding, the culturing of my > tribe, and children, whether I am woman or man, is already divided into the > tool-makers, and users, who need not know how to chip, or even hunt, if the > hunters go out. > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:52:52 -0400 From: del thomas Ph D Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110517051859.1CC15144954@woodward.joyent.us> When it comes to the simplest tools such as the inclined plane we are all at some time the builder and or user. But perhaps more of a concern "Men have become the tools of their tools."Henry David Thoreau. Del _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 18 06:04:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1053E145BCA; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:04:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1098145BB8; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:04:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110518060446.C1098145BB8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:04:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.32 new on WWW: Stellenbibliographie zum Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 32. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 14:56:41 +0100 From: "Yeandle, David" Subject: Line-by-line Bibliographical Database of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival > Subject: Line-by-line Bibliographical Database of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival > Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:18:47 +0100 > From: Yeandle, David Dear Colleagues, I should like to draw your attention to the fact that the Line-by-line Bibliographical Database of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival for the years 1753-2004, which was produced at King’s College London from 1997 to 2008, funded mainly by the AHRC, is now freely available online at: http://wolfram.lexcoll.net/ The Stellenbibliographie zum Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach (SBP) is a multifaceted work that can be used in a variety of ways. In addition to its principal function as a bibliography to each line of Parzival (available on two levels of detail and including references to the topic of comment to be found), it contains thematic indices; indices of authors and titles; of types, language, and dates of works; and a full lemmatized concordance of the text of Parzival, linked to the dictionaries of the University of Trier. There is also a lemmatized index of work titles. Additionally, the full text of the notes from the edition of Bartsch (revised Marti) is included in the SBP alongside the text of the Parzival. This provides the user with a preliminary orientation concerning the meaning of the Middle High German text. There is a detailed description of the functions of the SBP in German, together with a less detailed description in English. Since the SBP is such a complex work, it was necessary to opt for one language for the interface, and logically this had to be German, as most of the secondary literature is in German and a proper understanding of the poem can only be had from the Middle High German original. It is hoped nevertheless that the SBP can be used by non-German speaking scholars by means of the shorter introduction in English. Please forward this email to any who might be interested in the work. Best wishes, David Yeandle -- Professor David N. Yeandle, M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.) Email david.yeandle@kcl.ac.uk Telephone 01480 301737 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 18 06:05:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149CE145C15; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:05:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D4E4145BFD; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:05:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110518060522.0D4E4145BFD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:05:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.33 events: closing keynote DH2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 33. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:49:26 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: DH 2011 Closing Keynote We are very pleased to announce that the closing keynote for DH2011 will feature Erez Lieberman-Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, lead authors of “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books” published in Science (2010). Lieberman-Aiden and Michel are also the key researchers behind the Google n-grams viewer. Erez Lieberman Aiden is a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Visiting Faculty at Google. His research spans many disciplines and has won numerous awards, including recognition for one of the top 20 “Biotech Breakthroughs that will Change Medicine”, by Popular Mechanics; the Lemelson-MIT prize for the best student inventor at MIT; the American Physical Society’s Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Biological Physics; and membership in Technology Review’s 2009 TR35, recognizing the top 35 innovators under 35. His last three papers – two with JB Michel – have all appeared on the cover of Nature and Science. Jean-Baptiste Michel is FQEB Fellow at Harvard and Visiting Faculty at Google. With Erez Lieberman Aiden, he founded the Cultural Observatory at Harvard, where their team develops quantitative approaches to the humanities and social sciences. Jean-Baptiste is an Engineer of Ecole Polytechnique, and received an MS in Applied Math and a PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard. -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 19 22:25:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C901485A1; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A8D50148596; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110519222508.A8D50148596@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.34 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 34. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:01:37 -0300 From: Matt Huculak Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.31 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110518060337.21524145B53@woodward.joyent.us> I think we are forgetting an important part of the human/tool relationship in this discussion (and I apologize if I missed a thread in which this is discussed): in practical terms, we tend to become _emotionally_ involved with our tools so that they no longer represent some "thing", rather they become "our thing" and extensions of our imaginations. It's a form of pathetic fallacy of tool-use. This is important because we actually become attached and involved with our computers and computing systems (I am a mac person, and I ridiculously feel pity for Windows users, for example...though a bit insecure around Unix and Linux administrators). Apple has built an empire making people forget that they are using tools. Their products produce the illusion of being extensions of the human body and imagination. This is very intoxicating to the user. I bring this up because the biggest problem in the Humanities right now is that not enough humanists know how to code, and thus we do not have a proper sample of what humanists actually _want_ to do when it comes to computing. I've been really impressed with the Scholars' Lab "Spatial Humanities" site which seeks to instruct users on how to create their own maps (http://spatial.scholarslab.org/). That is, the tool gets out of the way and individual scholars are allowed to let their imagination play with a technology which promises to reveal new and interesting ways of reading our texts. I think our theoretical discussions might change when we observe how humanists actually start using actually existing technology as extensions of their own selves and imaginations (just look at the excitement surround GIS right now--I guarantee scholarship will be turned to the "spatial" for the next few years simply because it has become easy to engage in this type of mapping activity). For the teaching/researching public, "is it a tool" is not a question that is meaningful; "what can I do with it" and "how can I make it mine" is. Dr. J. Matthew Huculak Academic Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, Editing Modernism in Canada Webmaster & Consulting Trustee to the Executive Board, Modernist Studies Association http://msa.press.jhu.edu/ http://editingmodernism.ca/ http://matthuculak.com/ @jmhuculak _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 19 22:25:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DEF4148600; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AAC7A1485EF; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110519222556.AAC7A1485EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.35 jobs at the New York Public Library X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 35. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 14:58:51 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Two jobs at NYPL All, We are seeking two digital humanities developers for projects at NYPL. Apply here: https://jobs-nypl.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchKeyword=Labs&searchLocation=&searchCategory=11045 Descriptions below. Doug ------------ Front-End Web Developer/Designer, NYPL Labs Overview: The New York Public Library seeks a talented web designer/developer to join the Library's new research and development unit, NYPL Labs. We are looking for someone who is willing to experiment, able to build, test and debug in rapid iterations, and excited to join the intellectual life of NYPL and the wider digital humanities and creative tech community. Work will be situated in midtown Manhattan within NYPL's larger web group, but will focused on projects that break new ground in digital humanities research and/or facilitate new forms of networked participation in library activity. Projects may range from building crowdsourcing tools for enhancing library collections, rethinking established genres such as archival finding aids, or developing multi-modal (potentially cross-institutional) digital archives of special collections material. Some projects will be proof-of-concept prototypes aimed at hatching ideas that might eventually be applied more broadly across the library, others will be fully realized applications that become staple resources in the NYPL web environment. All will place you at the intersection of scholarly, library and technological innovation taking place at one of the world' greatest public research institutions, tapped into one of the worlds largest and most creatively dynamic urban populations. External Responsibilities: We are seeking a developer who can: Build and design attractive and intuitive web application interfaces. Work with our User Experience Designers to adapt existing and create new software-based solutions to support the needs of our patrons. Explore new platforms and architectures for NYPL services and content. Keep up to date with the latest trends in both web technology and digital libraries/digital humanities, and participate in a community of fellow practitioners. Perform other related duties as required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Web Development, Computer Science, Digital Design, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Expert level HTML and CSS skills. Excellent knowledge of Javascript, including frameworks and techniques such as AJAX, JQuery and/or Prototype. Demonstrated experience working with dynamic content in template-driven web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Drupal, etc. Knowledge of source code/version control software, test driven development, and Agile processes area major plus. Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to work well collaboratively or independently. Ability to take initative and meet deadlines. Position will report to the web development team of the NYPL Strategy Office, under the Senior Manager for Wen Initiatives, and will work closely day to day with the Manager of NYPL Labs. ---------------------------------------------------------- Web Applications Developer, NYPL Labs Position Description: Overview: The New York Public Library seeks a talented web applications developer to join the Library's new research and development unit, NYPL Labs. We are looking for someone who is willing to experiment, able to build, test and debug in rapid iterations, and excited to join the intellectual life of NYPL and the wider digital humanities and creative tech community. Work will be situated in midtown Manhattan within NYPL's larger web group, but will be focused on projects that break new ground in digital humanities research and/or facilitate new forms of networked participation in library activity. Projects may range from building crowdsourcing tools for enhancing library collections, rethinking established genres such as archival finding aids, or developing multi-modal (potentially cross-institutional) digital archives of special collections material.Some projects will be proof-of-concept prototypes aimed at hatching ideas that might eventually be applied more broadly across the Library. Others will be fully realized applications that become staple resources in the NYPL web environment. All will place you at the intersection of scholarly, library and technological innovation taking place at one of the worlds great public research institutions. Tapped into one of the worlds largest and most creatively dynamic urban populations. Responsibilities: We are seeking a developer who can: Design and implement scalable, optimized, database-driven web applications using server and client-side techniques. Work with our User Experience Designers to adapt existing and create new software-based solutions to support the needs of our patrons. Specify and build APIs, data feeds and other ways of interacting with NYPL content beyond web-based interfaces. Explore new platforms and architectures for NYPL services and content. Keep up to date with the latest trends in both web technology and digital libraries/digital humanities, and participate in a community of fellow practitioners. Perform other related duties as required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field (or equivalent experience). Excellent knowledge of databased-driven web development using PHP and Javascript. Demonstrated experience working with web-based content management systems, including familiarity with database programming (MySQL preferred), user accounts and session management. Preferred or desired experience in Ruby on Rails or other MVC framework. Preferred or desired experience with Drupal or equivalent CMS. Experience with front-end development (CSS, XHTML, JQuery, etc.) preferred. Knowledge of source code/version control software, test-driven development, and Agile processes are a major plus. Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to work collaboratively or independently. Ability to take initiative and meet deadlines. Position will report to web development team of the NYPL Strategy Office, under the Senior Manager for Web Initiatives, and will work closely day to day with Manager of NYPL Labs. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 19 22:27:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2CC14863E; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DF8E414862F; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110519222700.DF8E414862F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.36 new on WWW: correspondence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 36. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:45:53 +0200 From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: DALF release: digital edition of correspondence material concerning the journal 'Van Nu en Straks' In-Reply-To: <20110518060446.C1098145BB8@woodward.joyent.us> The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature is proud to present its first release through the Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders (DALF), the 'Van Nu en Straks Brieven': http://vnsbrieven.org . This fully eXist-driven web interface allows users to browse, search, view, and export the encoded letters or custom selections of letters in various formats: XHTML, XML, PDF. The letters can be visualized as reading text, diplomatic transcription, or XML source view, and facsimiles are offered where available. Most of these 1500 letters are in Dutch (180 are in French), and all of them deal with the Flemish literary journal 'Van Nu en Straks' (1893-1901). The encoding of the letters follows the DALF Guidelines for the Description and Encoding of Modern Correspondence Material (see http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/ ), a customization of the TEI P4 Guidelines. So far, all information in the edition is in Dutch. An English version of the edition interface is available at http://vnsbrieven.org/VNS/?lang=en . Ron Van den Branden Bert Van Raemdonck Edward Vanhoutte -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Coordinator Onderzoek& Publicaties Director of Research& Publications Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL) Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 | b-9000 Gent | Belgium email: edward.vanhoutte@kantl.be tel: +32 9 265 93 51 | fax: +32 9 265 93 49 http://ctb.kantl.be/ http://ctb.kantl.be/vanhoutte/ http://ctb.kantl.be/staff/edward.htm Editor-in-Chief LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org Managing Editor | Redactiesecretaris Verslagen& Mededelingen KANTL: http://www.verslagenenmededelingen.be Anton van Wilderode. 'De moerbeitoppen ruischten. Documentaire varianteneditie met een kroniek van de genese door Edward Vanhoutte.' Gent: KANTL, 2010. 784 pp. - ill. ISBN 978-90-72474-82-7. € 45. Gebonden hardback uitvoering. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 19 22:27:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCE8148685; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B476A148675; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110519222755.B476A148675@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.37 projects: Libraries as places of research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 37. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:40:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Support for 'libraries as places of research' In-Reply-To: <20110503050723.006BE13AC06@woodward.joyent.us> This press release, issued yesterday, may well be of interest to some persons here. Some interesting stuff being funded, largely in the Humanities area ( notice that, toward the bottom, there's a link to a list of the projects concerned, with brief descriptions ) : http://www.dfg.de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2011/pressemitteilung_nr_20/index.html - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland 19 March 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 20 20:36:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5D91484FC; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7AD61484EA; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110520203613.D7AD61484EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.38 in denial 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. 25, No. 38. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 09:00:25 -0400 From: Haines Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.34 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110519222508.A8D50148596@woodward.joyent.us> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:01:37 -0300 > From: Matt Huculak > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.31 in denial > In-Reply-To: <20110518060337.21524145B53@woodward.joyent.us> > > > I think we are forgetting an important part of the human/tool > relationship in this discussion (and I apologize if I missed a > thread in which this is discussed): in practical terms, we tend to > become _emotionally_ involved with our tools so that they no longer > represent some "thing", rather they become "our thing" and > extensions of our imaginations. It's a form of pathetic fallacy of > tool-use. I regret not having followed the thread closely, but this message caught my eye. I assume the pathetic fallacy is the attribution of human mental modalities to inanimate objects. I'm not much drawn to the reductionism of neuroscience or to the explicit or implicit dualism of its alternatives, but the former does make clear that emotion is a connection of the brainstem with the body and is the motivator of action. Since tool use involves action, emotion is always involved. There's also the pleasure of an endorphin reward for having manipulated the world to meet one's needs. True, the message spoke of an emotional attachment to a tool rather than from its use, but it makes sense that if we get a chemical high from the use of a tool and if a tool enhances our powers in the world, we would become rather attached to it, as we do to other physical objects such as our home or environs. If a tool is a material object that enhances my powers to act on the world, why not see it as a material extension of self? The real issue here is whether an effect embodies the (mental) properties of its cause, or is the effect only constrained and enabled by those properties? More specifically, some people (although not I) see intentionality as the cause of our actions, and the result of our action is a material embodiment of a mental modality. However, that it expresses our intentions does not mean the object has intentionality. One can approach this issue in philosophical or in economic terms. There's an old Hegelian notion that by acting on the world it becomes a material expression or objectification of self. If this only means a causal interaction of entities such as self-other or mind-body, the point rings hollow and perhaps gets close to a pathetic fallacy (exactly what about self becomes embedded in the world?). There are alternatives (a non-reductionist processual superposition being my favorite). The tool is the primary interface with our world, and if that relation is the precondition for our development as human beings and enhances our powers to actualizes the world's possibilities, the tool is critically important to us. Should we not become emotionally attached to it because of its enlargement of self? This hardly attributes the properties of mind to a tool. The other side of this coin is economic. I assume that any action is simultaneously creative and conservative because any action draws on real possibilities in the world to produce a new state of affairs, and at the same time it is constrained by existing structures, which are thought of as the past state of affairs. Given this assumption, because a tool by itself can only frame existing structures, it is intrinsically conservative of value. Put in old fashioned terms, the tool therefore cannot itself create new value (a "surplus value" beyond the value of existing structures). Economic value over and above existing value can only be an actualization of the world's real possibilities by the person using the tool and aware of the world's possibilities, and the tool is a means for the development of self through the actualization of these real possibilities. This is contrary to a common belief of economists that technology itself is the source of new value. This would make tools creative, which indeed would be a pathetic fallacy. Haines Brown _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 20 20:36:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33179148539; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4AFE0148524; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110520203646.4AFE0148524@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.39 zoom in on ancient Rome, or what? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 39. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 08:32:53 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: zoom in on ancient Rome See http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/PR355783.aspx on a project from the University of Reading (UK). Comments on what such a thing (or better, what the human-machine interaction in this case) has to do with history and historiography would be welcome. Or perhaps what's happening here should not be hauled up before the judge and asked for evidence of value to the study of ancient Rome but read for what it has to tell us about something we'd like to be able to do but don't quite yet know how to do it. Ideally, from the perspective of an historian, what sorts of questions could be addressed in anything like this zooming in? What if the technology were (as I think people say) immersive? Less the animated cartoon-version, more the experience of being there and enacting Rome? What questions should we be asking? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 20 20:37:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF7A41485C1; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:37:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B509014858F; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:37:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110520203750.B509014858F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 20:37:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.40 more correspondence: Carl Maria von Weber X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 40. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:13:51 +0200 From: Peter Stadler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.36 new on WWW: correspondence In-Reply-To: <20110519222700.DF8E414862F@woodward.joyent.us> Congratulations to Edward, Ron and Bert for their release of the "Van Nu en Straks Brieven"! Let me add the annoncement of our own correspondence project www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de ("Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber") >From a technical point of view it's quite similar: eXist-driven, TEI-based, different views for the user (facsimile, xml, html). Please note that the website reflects the current state of work and is not at all a complete edition yet -- neither in a technical sense nor with regards to content or language localisations. (We'll keep you updated about the progress on our website.) We hope that you show eager interest in this edition and are looking forward to any comments (critical as well as encouraging ones!) All the best from Detmold, Germany Peter Stadler and Joachim Veit -- Peter Stadler Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe Arbeitsstelle Detmold Gartenstr. 20 D-32756 Detmold Tel. +49 5231 975-665 Fax: +49 5231 975-668 stadler at weber-gesamtausgabe.de www.weber-gesamtausgabe.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 May 22 20:21:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40AB1491F0; Sun, 22 May 2011 20:21:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FEDD1491DD; Sun, 22 May 2011 20:21:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110522202141.3FEDD1491DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 20:21:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.41 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 41. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:47:50 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.38 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110520203613.D7AD61484EA@woodward.joyent.us> To tie a knot at the end of this thread, and make simpler Haines Brown's last paragraphs, the term that has not appeared yet might the one that used to be used to characterize the species that does all these things, writing up pathetic fallacies included. Viz., it used be that we called ourselves, or one thinker called us: Homo faber. This name for us all encompasses a lot of what has been sent out on this thread from the first. The details in the narrow case of the silicon cavetto that holds and sends electrons are aspects of ourselves. By the way, a neat obit for Mr. Jones appeared in yesterday's LA Times, Mr Jones of Bell Labs, a Canadian from Nova Scotia who with a colleague invented the digital means of making silicon something that could do all these things. His life makes a fine story. An hour's brainstorming one afternoon with colleague Smith, and the deed was done. Wonderful to contemplate. He was 85; so all this is current stuff for us. As for the tool, that may from the first sharpened flint be attributed to what was once called: Homo ludens. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 24 23:17:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD7D14B32E; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:17:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8013314B31C; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:17:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110524231752.8013314B31C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 23:17:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.42 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 42. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.41 in denial [2] From: Todd Lawson (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.41 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 16:45:53 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.41 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110522202141.3FEDD1491DD@woodward.joyent.us> Whether we are Homo Faber or Homo Ludens is not defined by the tools that we use, but by the attitude toward those tools that we have. The first sharpened flint was produced by Homo Faber. A man who sharpens a flint in the middle of a jungle or desert or other kind of wilderness today in order to hunt for food -- in order to survive -- is Homo Faber. A member of an industrialized society sharpening a flint is usually Homo Faber. The flint is still the flint, though. The man makes the tool in every sense of the word long before the tool can begin to make the man. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:20:14 -0400 From: Todd Lawson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.41 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110522202141.3FEDD1491DD@woodward.joyent.us> Homo Ludens: The very name is like a bell! In the ludic mode most things can be a [?mere] tool, it would seem. But that doesn't mean we should not use them anyway. A language, after all, is both instrument and music. Can't computers also be seen as raising the same kinds of questions about category/ies? Todd Lawson _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 24 23:18:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE6214B3AC; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CED1A14B39D; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:18:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110524231845.CED1A14B39D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 23:18:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.43 job: Asst Director, MITH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 43. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 12:40:35 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: job at Maryland: Assistant Director at MITH ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (position #115754) The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a renowned and rapidly growing research center that is helping to transform the humanities in an era of new media and global information. We’re looking for an Assistant Director to help initiate and manage our projects, someone who will deepen the expertise of our interdisciplinary team of humanities researchers and developers and who will contribute to a creative, high-energy, and team-oriented environment. 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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: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" (63) Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for June 2011; Vol. 26,No. 2 [2] From: RAM-Verlag (32) Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 10: " The Lambda Structure ofTexts" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 08:28:15 +0100 From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for June 2011; Vol. 26,No. 2 Literary and Linguistic Computing Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing is available online: June 2011; Vol. 26, No. 2 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol26/issue2/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yoko Iyeiri, Michiko Yaguchi, and Yasumasa Baba Principal component analysis of turn-initial words in spoken interactions Defeng Li, Chunling Zhang, and Kanglong Liu Translation Style and Ideology: a Corpus-assisted Analysis of two English Translations of Hongloumeng Tanja Saily, Terttu Nevalainen, and Harri Siirtola Variation in noun and pronoun frequencies in a sociohistorical corpus of English ---------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial ---------------------------------------------------------------- Stuart Dunn Introduction to the Special Section on Digital Objects: digital objects, digital humanities--Questions, Processes, and Outputs Mona Hess, Francesca Simon Millar, Stuart Robson, Sally MacDonald, Graeme Were, and Ian Brown Well Connected to Your Digital Object? 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The book is available as Printed edition: EUR 45.00 plus PP CD edition: EUR 20.00 plus PP Internet (download PDF-file): 15.00 EUR. If you have any questions,do not hesitate to contact me. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 2351/ 973070 Fax: +49 (0) 2351/ 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: www.ram-verlag.de http://www.ram-verlag.de/ Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 Mwst/VAT/TVA/ ID no.: DE 125 809 989 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 24 23:26:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A92014B61F; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:26:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E3E2E14B60D; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:26:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110524232608.E3E2E14B60D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 23:26:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.45 events: preservation; interdisciplinarity; culture; 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. 25, No. 45. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leo Konstantelos (52) Subject: Preservation Of Complex Digital Objects Symposia (POCOS): Registrationnow open for Visualisations and Simulations [2] From: Reena Dobson (37) Subject: Reminder: Call for Papers - Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference [3] From: Kaja Marczewska (5) Subject: CFP: InterTexts: A conference on interdisciplinarity (Durham, UK,23rd September 2011) [4] From: Simon Dixon (19) Subject: London Digital Humanities Group: Following the Money - 2 June 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:41:25 +0100 From: Leo Konstantelos Subject: Preservation Of Complex Digital Objects Symposia (POCOS): Registrationnow open for Visualisations and Simulations POCOS Symposium on Visualisations and Simulations Date: 16-17 June 2011 Venue: Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's College London Cost: Free (£10 donation towards lunch and refreshments) == Dear Colleagues you are cordially invited to attend the first in a series of three symposia organised by the POCOS project (http://www.pocos.org). The popular use of three dimensional models for visually representing information in archaeology, historic buildings, cultural heritage organisations, and academic research has created new challenges for managing and preserving such material. Successful preservation of 3D models depends on a number of parameters, including identification of file formats, specification of technical characteristics and standardisation of metadata models. Furthermore, accurate interpretation of 3D models depends on the persistence of the software used to create, render and display the deriving products. The two-day symposium on Visualisations and Simulations will provide a forum for participants to review and discuss the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion of the following key topics: * Intellectual "Transparency" In 3D Cultural Heritage Models * The role of Virtual Museums * Preservation of Mixed Reality Representations of Heritage Sites The symposium is organised by the King's Visualisation Lab (KVL) based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. Places at the symposium are limited and should be booked in advance. To find out more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/simulations-and-visualisations We look forward to seeing you in London! Kind Regards, The POCOS Team -- Website: http://www.pocos.org General queries: info@pocos.org Registration queries: registration@pocos.org Symposium queries: event1@pocos.org Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11 -- Dr Leo Konstantelos Principal Investigator, POCOS HATII Preservation Research Officer 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH Skype: l.konstantelos T: +44 (0)141 330 7133 E: L.Konstantelos@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:15:50 +0000 From: Reena Dobson Subject: Reminder: Call for Papers - Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference Knowledge / Culture / Social Change Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney 7-9 November 2011 The humanities and social sciences today struggle to come to terms with the explosion of knowledge in increasingly complex, diverse and networked societies. Which forms of knowledge work best for managing, challenging or engaging with rapid social change? Do new kinds of information play an increasing role in economic and social management? Do these changes raise questions about what 'knowledge' is, or is to become? What are the new rules for engagement between academic and other knowledge practices and institutions? This conference will bring together theorists and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and knowledge institutions to debate these questions in relation to the following themes: Shifting knowledge maps. Discipline boundaries are increasingly permeable within the humanities and social sciences and across these and the natural and physical sciences. Yet it often proves difficult to connect these new knowledge maps both within academia and across sectors (university/government; public/private; NGO/university/government, etc.). Knowledge engagement is more problematic, just as it is becoming more important and desirable. How are these problems best addressed? Knowledge and globalisation. Processes of globalisation undermine the relevance of purely national knowledge frameworks, while the hegemony of Western knowledge systems is challenged on many fronts: the increasing influence of Asia; the resurgent interest in indigenous and community knowledges; and the competing perspectives of multiple modernities. How can the relations between these multiple knowledge practices best be engaged with? A (Post)humanities? The nature/culture dualism is under challenge from a diverse range of knowledges (ecological, post-rational, feminist, animal studies, etc). These interventions engage the global predicament presented by climate change, blurring the boundaries between natural and social environments, while medical and nano technologies radically restructure our sense of the boundaries and constituents of personhood. How can we now best understand our entanglements with the more-than-human? Digital knowledge practices. New electronic and digital technologies are rapidly changing the mechanisms and speeds of knowledge flows with profound consequences for intellectual property and the practices of knowledge institutions, while also enabling new ways of knowing that significantly challenge older relations of knowledge production. How can our practices respond to these new knowledge possibilities? Knowledge and governance. New kinds of data - quantitative and qualitative - and methods and techniques of visualisation play an increasingly important role in economic and social management, while science/arts divisions are undermined by new kinds of art/science practice. Knowledge institutions and technologies play new roles in processes of social and cultural change; e.g. archives, museums, science centres, statistical and other data banks. In what ways do these new knowledge practices actively intervene and shape social life? Keynote Speakers Dawn Casey, Director, Powerhouse Museum; Chair, Indigenous Business Australia. Museums, Conflicting Cultures and the Politics of Knowing. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. The Human after Climate Change. Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester; a Director in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. Surface Dramas, Knowledge Gaps and Scalar Shifts: Infrastructural Engineering in Sacred Spaces. Bruno Latour, Scientific Director, Professor and Vice President for Research, Sciences-Po. Social Theory, Tarde, and the Web [via videolink]. Nikolas Rose, James Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics; Director, BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society. The Human Sciences in the Century of Biology. Paper and Panel Proposals Paper and panel proposals addressing the conference themes are invited. Proposals spanning one or more themes are especially welcome. - Individual paper proposals (200-300 words) - Panel proposals (200 words for the panel concept and 200-300 words on each panel paper) Please see https://www.conferenceonline.com/index.cfm?page=booking&object=abstract&forceHB=1&id=203 to submit your abstract, or visit the following URL: https://www.conferenceonline.com/index.cfm?page=booking&object=abstract&forceHB=1&id=203 The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday 3 June 2011. Organising Committee Contacts Tony Bennett t.bennett@uws.edu.au Bob Hodge b.hodge@uws.edu.au Kay Anderson k.anderson@uws.edu.au Sonja van Wichelen s.vanwichelen@uws.edu.au Administrative contact: Reena Dobson r.dobson@uws.edu.au Conference Website Please visit the conference website regularly for updates: http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr/kcsc --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:04:51 +0100 From: Kaja Marczewska Subject: CFP: InterTexts: A conference on interdisciplinarity (Durham, UK,23rd September 2011) Call for papers: InterTexts – a one-day conference on interdisciplinarity Durham University, Durham, UK Friday, 23rd September 2011 Abstract submission deadline: 10th June 2011 The tradition of working across disciplinary boundaries has a long history: literature and visual arts, literature and philosophy, literature and psychology, all feature prominently in the field of literary studies. At present, when humanities face escalating funding challenges and a constant requirement to justify and validate the research carried out, literary scholars increasingly look at other disciplines, expanding their field of inquiry and contributing to a proliferation of research in areas such as literature and law, literature and science, literature and medicine, literature and ecology. This conference aims to give postgraduate and early career researchers working on interdisciplinary projects an opportunity to present their work and contribute to the discussion on the developments of interdisciplinary research within literary studies. Alongside traditional panels, we will be offering workshops that deal with practical issues, resources and challenges of conducting interdisciplinary research within one of the five interdisciplinary fields at the core of the conference (Literature and Law, Literature and Science, Medical Humanities, Literature and Visual Arts and Literature and Music). We invite papers focusing on any issue within one of the following interdisciplinary fields: Literature and Law Literature and Science Medical Humanities Literature and Visual Arts Literature and Music. We also welcome proposals discussing challenges and demands of conducting interdisciplinary research. These could include, but are not limited to: proliferation of interdisciplinary research, the value of interdisciplinarity, the future of interdisciplinarity, traditional humanities vs. interdisciplinary research, implications of interdisciplinarity for literary scholarship, traditional methodologies and interdisciplinary research, interdisciplinarity and canonisation or how, if at all, do we define canons within interdisciplinary fields. Authors of selected proposals will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for consideration by the editorial board of Durham’s Postgraduate English journal. The papers will be considered for publication in the special issue of the journal focusing on interdisciplinarity, celebrating ten years of the journal, and coinciding with the launch of its new website. Please send 250-300 word abstracts proposing 20 minute papers to Kaja Marczewska (kaja.marczewska@durham.ac.uk) by 10th June 2011. Notifications of acceptance, together with more information about Postgraduate English publication opportunities will be sent by 17th June 2011. *** Enquiries: kaja.marczewska@durham.ac.uk Website: intertexts.wordpress.com --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:42:05 +0100 From: Simon Dixon Subject: London Digital Humanities Group: Following the Money - 2 June 2011 In-Reply-To: The next meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place at Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AR on Thursday 2 June at 5pm. The meeting will take the form of a panel discussion on the topic of: 'Following the Money: Funding Digital Humanities Projects in a Period of Austerity'. Speakers will be Ann Hughes (Professor of Early Modern History at Keele and Director of the Research Institute for the Humanities), John Morrill (Professor of British and Irish History, Cambridge) and Alastair Dunning (Programme Manager, Digitisation, JISC). All are welcome to attend. Dr Williams's Library is located in Gordon Square a short walk from UCL and the British Library. For directions see http://www.dwlib.co.uk/dwlib/visiting.html. To confirm attendance or for further information please contact s.dixon@qmul.ac.uk The London Digital Humanities Group is supported by Queen Mary, University of London. -- Dr Simon Dixon Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dissenting Academies Project Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies Department of English and Drama Queen Mary, University of London http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/people/sdixon.html http://qmul.academia.edu/SimonDixon/About _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 25 21:36:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6115D14B7DC; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:36:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A88914B7BB; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:36:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110525213605.2A88914B7BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:36:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.46 jobs: Doegen Records Web Project (Dublin) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 46. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:29:50 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Doegen Records Web Project Seeks 2 Interns Doegen Records Web Project Seeks 2 Interns The Doegen Records Web Project are offering 2 postgraduate internships for the translation from Irish into English of transcripts of the original dialect recordings (Connacht, Munster and Ulster Irish). Based in the Royal Irish Academy library, the Doegen Project is transferring 212 recordings of native Irish speech from each of the four provinces to the web. These recordings were made by Dr Wilhelm Doegen, Director of the Lautabteilung, Preussische Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, during the period 1928-31, under a Department of Education initiative, which was organised and administered by the Academy. The collection comprises versions of stories, songs, prayers and other miscellaneous items. The RIA now invites applications for the fixed-term contract positions with the Doegen Web Project. Details and instructions for applying are available at: http://ria.ie/our-work/about/vacancies.aspx --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA) --- Regus House, 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 --- IRELAND --- +353 1 234 2441 --- day.shawn@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 May 25 21:37:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908F014B91E; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:37:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CAD1314B906; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:37:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110525213753.CAD1314B906@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:37:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 47. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:34:35 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: mediation I've been asked what I think about "the digital mediation of knowledge" in the disciplines of the humanities. My first reaction to this is to be troubled by the word "mediation", picking up on the sense given in the OED as 2.a, > Agency or action as an intermediary; the state or fact of serving as > an intermediate agent, a means of action, or a medium of > transmission; instrumentality. Understood in this way, mediation seems immediately to prejudice the case quite unhelpfully, by starting us off thinking in information-theoretic terms of senders, receivers and transmission between them. (I do not deny that the information-theoretic model is useful -- our devices, including the one I am using at the moment, prove usefulness -- only that this usefulness is limited.) And this returns me to the question that has recently had considerable traction here, namely about tools, esp considered phenomenologically. I am thinking that "mediation" and "just a tool" are very close cousins. I am wondering now, who has most illuminatingly gagged on "mediation", as I seem to be doing? For whom has the problem most interestingly been problematic? What do we think about this? I suspect that I am thinking in a rather elementary way about this matter, so elementary, beginner's observations would be welcome, at least by me. If someone has nailed this question dead then I want to know all about that nail, but I suspect that this is one of those gifts that keeps on giving. Help with this will be most welcome. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 26 22:50:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736B514C6F7; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:50:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C634814C6E7; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:50:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110526225017.C634814C6E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:50:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.48 job for archivist at the RCAHMS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 48. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:09:03 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Job Vacancy: Digital Archivist at RCAHMS, Edinburgh Digital Archivist position, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ----- RCAHMS is looking to recruit a Digital Archivist (£27,750 to £33,974, Permanent) to lead the development of a Trusted Digital Repository for the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity which will allow the successful candidate to find innovative solutions to the digital preservation challenges faced by RCAHMS as well as working with the organisation's interesting and diverse collections relating to the historic and built enviornment of Scotland. Further details and application instructions are available on the RCAHMS website: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/digital-archivist.html Posted on behalf of Kirsty Lingstadt, Collections Operational Manager kirsty.lingstadt@rcahms.gov.uk +44 (0)131 651 6725 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 26 22:53:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C3414C831; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:53:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B2F014C823; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:53:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110526225327.5B2F014C823@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:53:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.49 limits of mediation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 49. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Todd Lawson (60) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? [2] From: Laval Hunsucker (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? [3] From: Stefan Gradmann (86) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:24:17 -0400 From: Todd Lawson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? In-Reply-To: <20110525213753.CAD1314B906@woodward.joyent.us> Dare one recall that now vintage Canadian notion: the medium is the message? On May 25, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 47. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:34:35 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: mediation > > I've been asked what I think about "the digital mediation of knowledge" > in the disciplines of the humanities. My first reaction to this is to be > troubled by the word "mediation", picking up on the sense given in the > OED as 2.a, > >> Agency or action as an intermediary; the state or fact of serving as >> an intermediate agent, a means of action, or a medium of >> transmission; instrumentality. > > Understood in this way, mediation seems immediately to prejudice the > case quite unhelpfully, by starting us off thinking in > information-theoretic terms of senders, receivers and transmission > between them. (I do not deny that the information-theoretic model is > useful -- our devices, including the one I am using at the moment, prove > usefulness -- only that this usefulness is limited.) And this returns me > to the question that has recently had considerable traction here, namely > about tools, esp considered phenomenologically. I am thinking that > "mediation" and "just a tool" are very close cousins. > > I am wondering now, who has most illuminatingly gagged on > "mediation", as I seem to be doing? For whom has the problem most > interestingly been problematic? What do we think about this? > > I suspect that I am thinking in a rather elementary way about this > matter, so elementary, beginner's observations would be welcome, at > least by me. If someone has nailed this question dead then I want to > know all about that nail, but I suspect that this is one of those gifts > that keeps on giving. > > Help with this will be most welcome. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:25:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? In-Reply-To: <20110525213753.CAD1314B906@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, you wrote : > I am wondering now, who has most illuminatingly gagged > on "mediation", as I seem to be doing? > . . . > but I suspect that this is one of those gifts that keeps on > giving. So do I. But anyway, though I'm pretty ignorant in this area, the names of Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Bernard Stiegler come to mind. And I saw by chance a possibly relevant article in last year's _Aquinas : rivista internazionale di filosofia_ ( 53.1, p.39-63 ) : Flavia Silli's "Le basi neurofisiologiche dell’ epistemologia intersoggettiva e la categoria esistenziale della testimonianza". Sorry I can't be of more help ( but surely someone else here can ). - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 00:27:57 +0200 From: Stefan Gradmann Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? In-Reply-To: <20110525213753.CAD1314B906@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, 'mediation' is indeed a doomed term, and as a professor in Library and Information Science I know what I'm talking about: for centuries libraries have been defining themselves as mediators, providing access to printed information with their catalogues containing the pointers to the individual bits of information, the documents. They have tried to transpose this business model inherited from the Gutenberg galaxis into the Turing galaxis with OPACs and the notion of digital 'collections' they would again provide access to. Today, these libraries are facing a rapid erosion of this mediation model, and this erosion is mainly caused by the WWW, where the very notion of 'mediating' access to resources doesn't make much sense and likewise terms like 'catalog' or 'collection' are increasingly emptied metaphors. This erosion is accelerated with the extension of the web both in syntax (RDF and linked data) and in scope (from a web of 'documents' to a web containing representations of almost everything that can be referred to in a denotating statement). And finally, the very concept of a document the whole mediation approach was built around is being deconstructed itself in the information and knowledge architecture of the linked data web. I could make similar statements putting on my hat as president of DGI, the German Association of Information Science and Practice, which was built around the paradigm of mediating information for quite some time and currently experiences the complete erosion of this professional profile of information brokering. This probably is somewhere between a beginner's observation and nailing the question dead :) Best -- Stefan Gradmann _____________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin School of Library and Information Science Sitz: Dorothenstrasse 26 Post: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 2093-4481 Fax : +49 30 2093-4335 GSM : +49 170 8352623 e-mail: stefan.gradmann@ibi.hu-berlin.de _____________________________________________________________ Je est un autre. (Arthur Rimbaud, Lettres du Voyant) _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 26 22:55:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF0014C8DD; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:55:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AC2A14C8C7; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:55:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110526225532.3AC2A14C8C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:55:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.50 cfp: commentary on leaks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 50. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:39:41 +0100 From: Jacob Johanssen Subject: CFP Reminder Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Ethics Just a quick reminder of the call for papers below. Thanks! In 2010, WikiLeaks released U.S. embassy diplomatic cables (creating what some already refer to as the ‘Cablegate’ affair), as well as classified reports and top secret footage extracted from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These unprecedented developments ignited a lively international debate involving politicians, journalists and members of the public, raising questions and concerns about Wikileaks’ short and long term political, legal, ethical and logistical effects. On the one hand, Wikileaks shocked the international diplomatic community and brought up issues of national security and censorship. Simultaneously, media experts started exploring what Wikileaks might mean for (the future of) journalism and how it might change the role of the Internet in news reporting. Wikileaks also brought to the table issues concerning the boundaries of digital journalism and raised questions about how news reporting is done in an age of digital communications, particularly in what the functions of ‘whistleblowers’ and online leaks are concerned. Cyborg Subjects (www.cyborgsubjects.org) takes great pleasure and active interest in placing these issues at the core of its next project. We invite all interested authors to send full-length articles (3000 words maximum), short commentaries (500-800 words), interviews or book reviews (1000-1500 words) to submissions@cyborgsubjects.org . Artworks, Videos, Performances, etc. related to the topic are also very welcome. Contributions may wish to report, comment on or review theoretical and empirical insights into topics such as the following (and beyond): •What is the relationship between the most recent Wikileaks and the recent uprisings in the Arab world? •Why has Wikileaks provoked such a huge amount of controversy and international reaction? • What are the main legal and ethical issues raised by Wikileaks? •Wikileaks: freedom of speech and the right to information. Where is the line drawn? Does this line even exist? • Wikileaks: privacy, online data protection and national security. • What are the implications of Wikileaks for the study and conceptualizing of new media journalism and political communication? • Is Wikileaks a journalistic organization? • Can Wikileaks be considered investigative journalism? • How does Wikileaks challenge traditional journalistic standards? • What type of media activism is served by Wikileaks? • What is the role of ‘whistleblowers’ in Wikileaks (e.g. the case of Bradley Manning)? • What are the policy implications of the extrajudicial tactics deployed to censor Wikileaks? • What does the collaboration between WikiLeaks and traditional newspapers have to say about the future of mass media technologies? • How is Wikileaks’ editor in chief, Julian Assange, significant as a public figure? How, and by whom is he being ‘sanctified’ or ‘demonized’? • What is significant (feminist, post-feminist and/or non-feminist discussions welcome) about Julian Assange's accusations of rape, in the midst of the WikiLeaks international scandal? • How can researchers (ethically) deal with data published by WikiLeaks? • How ‘unexpected’ were the insights revealed by Wikileaks? Do they defy, or merely confirm public expectations of what goes on behind political façades? We invite all those interested to send their full contribution (including a 150-200 word abstract) to submissions@cyborgsubjects.org, by June 6, 2011. Contributors are free to use any reference style systems (e.g., APA, Harvard etc), as long as they are consistent in how they cite their sources throughout the article, and use endnotes, rather than footnotes, for citations. Cyborg Subjects offers a radical and new review system. We believe that knowledge should be free and that the process of knowledge production should not be obfuscated by the less transparent, “knowledge is power” peer review system associated with traditional academic journals. Therefore, submitted articles will be published as they come in and reviews will be posted as comments. Authors are asked to engage in the ensuing discussion and to comment on the review, as well as on other individuals’ (potential) reactions to the article. Feel free to visit www.cyborgsubjects.org to find out more! You can also find us on Facebook (http://fb.com/cyborgsubjects) and Twitter ( http://twitter.com/cyborgsubjects). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 28 01:21:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B9414DAD0; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:21:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8BE9E14DAC6; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:21:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110528012127.8BE9E14DAC6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 01:21:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.51 job at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 51. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:41:18 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Lectureship in Digital Information Studies Dear Humanists, I hope you will be interested to hear that UCL Department of Information Studies is advertising another new lectureship, this time in Digital Information Studies. Further information can be found at: http://bit.ly/heb6p The brief is deliberately broad as we are interested in someone who can contribute to our research and teaching in more than one disciplinary area within DIS. We are also particularly interested in people with experience of PhD supervision. Please feel free to email me with any informal enquiries you may have. Claire (Acting Head of Department: UCL Information Studies) -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 28 01:22:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2918314DB35; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:22:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E4F4514DB2A; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:22:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110528012242.E4F4514DB2A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 01:22:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.52 events: DH2011; NZ e-research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 52. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (42) Subject: NZ eResearch [2] From: Glen Worthey (26) Subject: DH2011: Early Registration Closing Soon! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 22:07:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: NZ eResearch NZ eResearch Symposium 2011 Thursday 30 June – Friday 1 July University of Otago, Dunedin www.eresearch.org.nz/nzers2011 NZ eResearch Symposium 2011 will be held at The University of Otago, Dunedin on Thursday 30 June – Friday 1 July 2011. Please mark these dates in your calendar and start making arrangements. eResearch encompasses all of the research computing that supports a research community. It crosses research disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences, physical and biological sciences, to math and engineering. It includes the computing and software platforms that connect equipment, data, and other computing resources with people, along with collections management, platforms to run experiments, and advanced collaboration tools. eResearch communities thrive on deep engagement with researchers, and aim to support the formation and operation of effective digitally-supported research communities. Our NZ eResearch Symposium is a broad forum for NZ's research sector and nascent eResearch community. This is an opportunity to meet leaders of eResearch initiatives within NZ and internationally, and to hear about emerging practice, and to share experiences. Further details including a call for contributors will be available shortly. Forward to a Friend If you know of anyone that may be interested in the NZ eResearch Symposium, please feel free to forward this information. Organisers General Chair: Nick Jones, University of Auckland Programme Chair: Mik Black, University of Otago Host: Russell Butson, University of Otago If you would like more information on any aspect of this conference, please contact the Conference Organiser: Conference organisers of NZ eResearch Symposium: Paardekooper and Associates phone: +64 4 562 8259 fax: +64 4 562 8269 email: eresearch@paardekooper.co.nz www: www.eresearch.org.nz/nzers2011 -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 18:07:30 -0700 From: Glen Worthey Subject: DH2011: Early Registration Closing Soon! DH2011: Early Registration Closing Soon! Have you registered for DH2011 at Stanford yet? Early registration will close on June 1,2011 --- just a little over two weeks before the conference begins. https://dh2011.stanford.edu/?registration You can continue to register right up until conference time, and even on-site --- but all bets are off after June 1: your favorite workshops and tutorials are beginning to fill up --- in fact, a few of them are already full. Or there might be no more seats on the magic bus headed for the post-Conference excursion of your California dreams. Finally, we'll need to raise the registration rates just a little to compensate for the last-minute menu tweaking and tee-shirt tie-dying and what have you. We'll try to go easy on this --- we're Californians; we're easy-going by nature --- and we might even be able give everyone a day or two leeway. But please help us out by registering soon. We want to be sure there's enough of everything to go around. Glen & Matt DH2011 local hosts P.S. In case you need any more convincing, we've just posted the complete DH2011 Book of Abstracts on the conference website. It's a stunning compilation of the collected work and thought of the DH community, and promises an outstanding academic program. It's linked at the bottom of the "Schedule" page of our site, at _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 20:40:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0245214EB38; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:40:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 69BF414EB2E; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:40:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110529204005.69BF414EB2E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 20:40:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.54 events: art & technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 54. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 19:07:28 +0100 From: roy ascott Subject: Art and Technology in the post-biological era CALL FOR PAPERS Consciousness Reframed [East]: art and technology in the post-biological era (CR [E] 2011): Transcultural Tendencies | Transmedial Transactions. Abstracts Deadline June 5th. The global impulse in new media art brings together a wide range of theories and practices from old and new societies, established and speculative philosophies, and traditional and emergent technologies, into new conjunctions and configurations. This syncretic process is producing transformative notions of place and presence, private and social, mind and machine. At the interface of sensibilities and systems, all that is solid melts into air. These issues form the background to the conference of artists, scholars, scientists, and engineers that will constitute Consciousness Reframed at SIVA, convened by Professor Hu, Vice Dean of SIVA and co-directed by Professor Roy Ascott, Founding President of the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth. The Consciousness Reframed conference series was founded by Roy Ascott in 1997. Consciousness Reframed is a forum for trans-disciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology, and consciousness, drawing upon the expertise and insights of artists, designers, architects, performers, musicians, writers, scientists, and scholars, from many countries. Consciousness Reframed conferences have taken place in Australia Austria, China, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Venue: Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Fudan University, China (in conjunction with the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth Uk). August 26 ­ 27, 2011 http://www.siva.edu.cn/renda/node6813/english/u1a1728638.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 29 20:43:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77A614EBD6; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:43:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D7EB14EBC6; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:42:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110529204258.2D7EB14EBC6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 20:42:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.55 call for submissions: location services X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 55. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 10:24:18 +1000 From: Katina Michael Subject: Final Call for Papers "Social and Behavioural Implications of Location Services" in JLBS Call for Papers on the Theme of the “Social and Behavioural Implications of Location Services.” This special issue in the Journal of Location Based Services is guest edited by Katina Michael from the University of Wollongong and MG Michael, Australia. Broadly the issue looks for original empirical work in the following subject areas: Mobility, Monitoring, Tracking, Surveillance, Sousveillance, Uberveillance, Ubiquity, Public Space vs. Private Space, Human Activity Reporting, GPS Navigation, Location Data Loggers, RFID, RFID Implants, Obtrusive Technology, Unobtrusive Technology, GIS, 3G Smart Phones, Applications, Service Quality, Reliability, Accuracy, Location Based Social Networking, Travel Mates, Tourism, Pervasive Health Monitoring, Alzheimer’s Disease- Wander Alerts, ANPR, Social Implications, Privacy, Information Privacy, Locational Privacy, Trust, Security, Intellectual Property, Data Collection, Disclosure, Behaviour al Implications, Human Factors, Relationships, Friends, Act of ‘unfriending’, Family, Strangers, Social Networks, Mental Health Issues, Virtual vs Physical World, Ethical Issues, Consent, Opt-in, Warrants, Attitudes, Perceptions, Scenarios, eObservation, Geotagging, Insurance, Law Enforcement, National Security, Emergencies. The Author guidelines can be found here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17489725. Submissions: 15th June 2011 Reviewer Decision: 15 July 2011 Final CRC: 30 July 2011 Publication: Year end 2011 Please submit your complete manuscript for consideration to katina@uow.edu.au Katina Michael Associate Professor School of Information Systems and Technology University of Wollongong, Australia http://ro.uow.edu.au/kmichael _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 1 21:06:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA731503DF; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:06:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B33661503A1; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:06:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110601210644.B33661503A1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:06:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.56 Australasian DH; spectral 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 56. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki" (19) Subject: David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project [2] From: Craig Bellamy (38) Subject: Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 16:59:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki" Subject: David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project Dear Colleagues, I attach an announcement for the David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project (http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/), which may be of interest to some members of this listserv. The project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a series of faded, illegible texts produced by the famous Victorian explorer when stranded without ink or writing paper in Central Africa. Best, Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki Honorary Research Fellow Department of English and Humanities Birkbeck College, University of London Project Director The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project A project funded by grants from the British Academy and the US National Endowment for the Humanities *** Transatlantic Project Retrieves Rare Livingstone Manuscripts For 140 years, rare manuscripts crucial to our understanding of the last years of the celebrated Victorian explorer and abolitionist David Livingstone in Africa were inaccessible due to their fragility and near-indecipherable script. Now a pioneering transatlantic collaboration among scholars from Birkbeck College (University of London), U.S. imaging scientists, and British and American cultural institutions has begun to make these manuscripts available online, starting with the publication of the revised edition of Livingstone’s Letter from Bambarre (http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/) by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program. The transatlantic collaboration is among the first to apply multispectral imaging--a preservation technology previously used to recover erased writing in medieval palimpsests--to restore the text of a nineteenth-century British manuscript. The revised critical edition (2011, orig. 2010) of Livingstone’s 1871 letter to his close friend and future editor Horace Waller includes a full transcription of the text, detailed critical notes, an extensive bibliography, an overview of spectral imaging, and a selection of spectral images processed to enhance both text and topographical features. In February 1871, while searching for the source of the Nile, Livingstone was in ill health, low on supplies, and living in extreme environmental conditions--a virtual prisoner in Bambarre, a village in what is now the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He had also run out of paper and would shortly run out of ink. As a result, when he decided to write to Waller, Livingstone improvised. He used pages torn from a proof copy of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society to describe his thoughts on the slave trade, the prospects for commerce and Christianity in the African interior, and relationships of the lake and rivers in Central Africa. Livingstone’s expedient might have provided a short-term solution, but today the letter--and similar documents produced by Livingstone at the time--present serious obstacles to the researcher. The letter’s pages are yellowed and brittle, and Livingstone’s ink has bled through the paper, in effect creating two layers of superimposed text. The improvised ink used for other documents, such as Livingstone’s diary, has faded to the point of invisibility. The problem is also compounded by Livingstone’s method of writing, which weaves an unsteady course around the margins of the page before it meanders vertically across the horizontal print of the Proceedings. With unintended irony, the letter’s disorienting text visually captures Livingstone’s frail mental and physical state. The imaging and formal publication of Livingstone’s letter to Waller--from the private collection of the distinguished American photographer Peter Beard--concludes the first phase of an 18-month project to produce a critical edition and spectral image database of the diary and letters Livingstone wrote in the year before his famous meeting with Henry Morton Stanley in late 1871. The project is funded by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities and the British Academy. The diary and letters, except for the letter from Peter Beard’s collection, are held at the David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre, Scotland and the National Library of Scotland. The two organisations are collaborating with a team of academics and scientists--known as the David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project--in order to bring these texts to the light of day. The full results of this project will eventually be made available through a unique partnership between the UCLA Library (http://www.library.ucla.edu/) and Livingstone Online (http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/), the main digital resource for Livingstone’s writings. For further details contact the Project Director, Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki (awisnicki@yahoo.com). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:47:52 +1000 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) We are pleased to announce the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), http://aa-dh.org/. The formation of the Association is the outcome of a workshop, sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, held on 22 March 2011 at the Australian National University . The workshop brought together 40 leading researchers, project directors and sector representatives to plan for the establishment of an Australasian professional association. Two international guests, Professor Ray Siemens (Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing at Victoria University) and Dr Patrik Svensson (Director of HUMlab, the digital research centre at Umeå University, Sweden) gave keynote lectures that positioned Australasian digital humanities research in a global context. The Association was formed to strengthen the digital humanities research community in our region and to work with other international associations within the field. The professional association will act to support and extend links between digital humanities researchers, improve professional development opportunities and provide international leverage for local projects and initiatives. We will hold our Annual General Meeting at the 'Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship' at the University of Melbourne, 12-14th December. http://paradisec.org.au/2011Conf.html In the first year we will develop a sustainable membership model for the association; in the interim please subscribe to our email list to keep up-to-date with events and opportunities. Kind regards, (for the interim committee) Dr Paul Arthur, ANU, Chair Professor Jane Hunter, UQ, Vice Chair Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, Secretary Dr Katherine Bode, ANU Professor Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle Dr Ian Johnson, University of Sydney Mr Gavan McCarthy, University of Melbourne, Dr Sydney Shep, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand Dr Tim Sherratt, National Museum of Australia Professor Deb Verhoeven, Deakin University, Melbourne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 1 21:10:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C8A15063F; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:10:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA27A150632; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:10:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110601211003.EA27A150632@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:10:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.57 events: classics; publishing; digital libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 57. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Marlies Olensky" (67) Subject: TPDL 2011 - Registration open - Early Bird until June 27, 2011 [2] From: "Vetch, Paul" (15) Subject: Symposium on open access publishing in the arts and humanities [3] From: "Mahony, Simon" (43) Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:18:41 +0200 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 - Registration open - Early Bird until June 27, 2011 Please excuse cross-posting -------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration fees Early / Normal --------------- Conference Full 500 Single day (Mon/Tue) 180 Single day (Wed) 90 Tutorials 130 Workshops Full day 170 Half day 85 Early / Student ---------------- Conference Full 350 Single day (Mon/Tue) 110 Single day (Wed) 55 Tutorials 100 Workshops Full day 140 Half day 70 Doctoral Consortium 55 All fees are in EUR. The late registration fees can be found on the website. In order to provide the highest possible flexibility for attending different workshops during TPDL, we offer the option to book half-days of the workshops. Please note that you need to book at least two half-days. Please register via http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationTPDL2011 Early Bird registration: until June 27, 2011 Late registration: until September 9, 2011 If you encounter any technical problems during your registration please contact: service@wiwex.net For all other enquiries please contact: info.tpdl2011@hu-berlin.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 21:20:43 +0100 From: "Vetch, Paul" Subject: Symposium on open access publishing in the arts and humanities In-Reply-To: <4284512A647C6747AFF7DE36399FAFB70AFBE0BE@MAIL.universe.lon.ac.uk> Open Access Publishing in the Arts and Humanities Friday, July 15th 2011 A symposium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in association with SAS-Space This symposium brings together academics, journal editors, publishers, librarians, funding bodies and repository practitioners to consider issues of particular concern in the arts and humanities. It will examine the economic and public policy aspects of humanities OA, as well as the different modes in which OA is currently delivered for scholars in the humanities. Confirmed speakers include Professor Shearer West (AHRC), Neil Jacobs (JISC), Dr Paul Ayris (Director of Library Services, UCL) and Tessa Harvey (Wiley-Blackwell). There will also be presentations on OA journals produced by commercial publishers and on campus, and from specialist humanities repositories, including SAS-Space. The conference is free to attend, with lunch provided. For further details, and to reserve a place, please contact Dr Peter Webster (Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk ) A provisional programme is available at: http://sas-space.blogspot.com/2011/05/conference-open-access-publishing-in.html Dr Peter Webster SAS-Space Manager School of Advanced Study, University of London Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk My SAS-Space: http://tinyurl.com/sas-space-peterwebster The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. SC041194 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:47:30 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 In-Reply-To: <4284512A647C6747AFF7DE36399FAFB70AFBE0BE@MAIL.universe.lon.ac.uk> This message was originally submitted by simon.mahony@KCL.AC.UK to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (44 lines) ------------------ Friday June 3rd at 16:30 Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Kathryn Piquette & Charles Crowther (Oxford) Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical material ALL WELCOME Ancient documentary scholars face a range of challenges in obtaining accurate physical documentation to support both decipherment and study of the processes of writing. In this seminar we present results from a joint Southampton-Oxford AHRC-funded project designed to address these issues through the application of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technologies. Through case studies of Egyptian and Classical material captured using a custom lighting-dome system and highlight-based RTI, we demonstrate how RTI is able to overcome challenges of image lighting as well as providing a more reflexive environment for observation and processes of ‘looking at’ inscribed surfaces. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Simon Mahony Student Support Manager Department of War Studies, e-Learning Programme Room K7.05, 7th Floor, South Range King's College London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/wimw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 2 22:37:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1E5151A01; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:37:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6BB091519F1; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:36:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110602223659.6BB091519F1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:36:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.58 metadata schemas for time-based 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. 25, No. 58. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:28:43 +1000 From: Adrian Miles Subject: Video Archival Question hi all I am involved in a research project where we have digitised a collection of videos related to circus performance. The aim is to a) build an archive of these, and b) build a social video site that provides access and reuse of this material in a variety of ways. My question, what metadata schemas are in use/matter around video and time based media? I am aware of 1. the SMPTE-RA metadata registry (http://www.smpte-ra.org/mdd/) 2. NINCH Guide to Best Practice (Audio/Video Capture and Management) http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities//ninchguide/VII/ 3. discussion document "Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation, Issues in Digital Media Archiving" http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/video.html 4. Archival Formats for Video Digitization (ethnographic point of view really) http://emeld.org/school/classroom/video/archive.html The problem is not what codecs/datrates/formats, but specifically metadata requirements, so that interoperability of the archive with other archives is possible (if this is on the roadmap). I've looked, but have not found a lot that relates to videos (and Dublin Core is currently being recommended). Any pointers on current best practice, things I've missed? an appropriate closing Adrian Miles about.me/vogmae _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 2 22:39:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DB9151B4E; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:39:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E251D151B3D; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:39:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110602223949.E251D151B3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:39:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.59 new on WWW: free pdfs of NAP 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. 25, No. 59. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:01:07 +0100 From: National Academies Press Subject: All PDF Books Free to Download As of June 2, 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) will be downloadable free of charge to anyone. This includes our current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports published by NAP (www.nap.edu).* Free access to our online content supports the mission of NAP--publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council--to improve government decision making and public policy, increase public education and understanding, and promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in matters involving science, engineering, technology, and health. In 1994, we began offering free content online. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:05:15 +0100 From: FedCSIS General Chairs Subject: FedCSIS 2011 - Final CfP FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2011 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Szczecin, Poland, September 18-21, 2011 http://www.fedcsis.org Organized by the Polish Information Processing Society in cooperation with IEEE Region 8, Gesellschaft fur Informatik, Asociacion de Tecnicos de Informatica, and sponsored by Intel Proceedings published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (additional post-publications as determined by the FedCSIS Events) [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 3 22:35:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66F0152638; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:35:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23FC1152630; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:35:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110603223556.23FC1152630@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:35:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.61 metadata for time-based media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 61. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:55:54 +0200 From: Øyvind Eide?= Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.58 metadata schemas for time-based media? In-Reply-To: <20110602223659.6BB091519F1@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Adrian Miles, If you see circus performances as intangible cultural heritage, as I think you should, a connection to the museum community may be in place. An ontology for museum and cultural heritage information is developed by ICOM-CIDOC into an ISO standard, namely the Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM, ISO 21127:2006). An OWL implementation of CIDOC-CRM is developed at the Friedrich- Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in cooperation with several other institutions: http://erlangen-crm.org/ There have been some work in using CIDOC-CRM in theatre documentation, I would guess this is not too far away from the circus...? If this is of interest to you, please get in touch and I will put you in connection with the right people. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo Den 3. juni. 2011 kl. 00.36 skrev Humanist Discussion Group: > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:28:43 +1000 > From: Adrian Miles > Subject: Video Archival Question > > > hi all > > I am involved in a research project where we have digitised a > collection of > videos related to circus performance. The aim is to a) build an > archive of > these, and b) build a social video site that provides access and > reuse of > this material in a variety of ways. > > My question, what metadata schemas are in use/matter around video > and time > based media? > > I am aware of > 1. the SMPTE-RA metadata registry (http://www.smpte-ra.org/mdd/) > 2. NINCH Guide to Best Practice (Audio/Video Capture and Management) > http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities//ninchguide/VII/ > 3. discussion document "Building a National Strategy for Digital > Preservation, Issues in Digital Media Archiving" > http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/video.html > 4. Archival Formats for Video Digitization (ethnographic point of view > really) http://emeld.org/school/classroom/video/archive.html > > The problem is not what codecs/datrates/formats, but specifically > metadata > requirements, so that interoperability of the archive with other > archives is > possible (if this is on the roadmap). I've looked, but have not > found a lot > that relates to videos (and Dublin Core is currently being > recommended). Any > pointers on current best practice, things I've missed? > > an appropriate closing > Adrian Miles > about.me/vogmae _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 3 22:36:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA09715267D; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:36:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E8E515266D; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:36:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110603223641.0E8E515266D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:36:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 62. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:16:38 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: What venues to announce new online journal? Dear Colleagues: I'm starting a new online Humanities journal, and I'm compiling a list of journals, blogs, forums, email lists, and other places to announce the first issue. Any help? Thank you. Mark Winokur _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 3 22:37:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30D51526BD; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:37:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 789F91526B3; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:37:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110603223752.789F91526B3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:37:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.63 events: workshops at Brown; ACH Annual General Meeting X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 63. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (42) Subject: Digital Humanities Workshops at Brown University [2] From: Julia Flanders (27) Subject: ACH Annual General Meeting: June 20, 2011, Stanford University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:52:30 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Digital Humanities Workshops at Brown University Registration is now open for the Brown University Women Writers Project's summer and fall workshops on topics in TEI and digital humanities: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/ 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 an 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/outreach/seminars/ . Students and members of the TEI consortium receive a 33% discount on registration. All workshops are held at Brown University. Space is limited so please register early. July 20-22, 2011 Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities Syd Bauman and David Birnbaum $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) August 29-31, 2011 Introduction to TEI Customization Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) September 26-28, 2011 Introduction to Text Encoding and Contextual Information with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) December 5-7, 2011 Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) We hope to see you in Providence! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library http://www.wwp.brown.edu http://library.brown.edu/cds/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:56:53 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: ACH Annual General Meeting: June 20, 2011, Stanford University The officers and executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) invite all ACH members and interested individuals to attend our Annual General Meeting, which will be held on Monday, June 20th, at noon on the campus of Stanford University. The ACH AGM will coincide with the first lunch break of the Digital Humanities conference. Lunch will be provided. The agenda for the meeting is as follows: 1. ACH business and announcements (including the introduction of new officers); 2. Our popular "jobs slam," a fast-paced lightning round in which job seekers have an opportunity to introduce themselves to their digital humanities colleagues and potential employers (or be introduced by a mentor) -- and people with jobs to announce can share their good news. (To participate, please contact Stéfan Sinclair, sgs@mcmaster.ca.) 3. Open discussion of two questions: "Should the ACH consider a change in name, to represent our community better?" and "What might we do to promote graduate students' and under-funded ACH members' access to DH-related events, particularly on years when the annual conference is being held in Europe?" Stay tuned for more information about the jobs slam and other ACH- organized events and programs at this summer's DH conference! -- and please plan to join us on June 20th. Best wishes, Julia Flanders, ACH President Bethany Nowviskie, ACH Vice-President _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 20:03:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1A6151851; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:03:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6BBBA15183F; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:03:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110604200307.6BBBA15183F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:03:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.64 where to announce an online journal X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 64. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ernesto Priego (52) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? [2] From: Marin Dacos (37) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? [3] From: peter jones (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 15:38:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? In-Reply-To: <20110603223641.0E8E515266D@woodward.joyent.us> > I'm starting a new online Humanities journal, and I'm > compiling a list > of journals, blogs, forums, email lists, and other places > to announce > the first issue. Any help? On Twitter. Ernesto --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 07:01:48 +0200 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? In-Reply-To: <20110603223641.0E8E515266D@woodward.joyent.us> You can use Calenda to publish your call for papers. Calenda is the most known French calendar for human and social sciences. It is going international. To publish a Call for paper in Calenda, you just have to fill the form. http://calenda.revues.org/suggerer.php The form is only in French, by now, but we welcome suggestions in English, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, German, Arabic, and so on. A new version of Calenda is on its way and will be completly translated in several languages. Hope it helps, Marin Dacos -- Marin Dacos Directeur - Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing OpenEdition Freemium, l'avenir du libre accès - http://www.openedition.org/8873 OpenEdition *Freemium* is the future of Open Access - http://www.openedition.org Alertes et abonnements sur nos trois plateformes : http://search.openedition.org/indexalert.php?&a=description CNRS - EHESS - Université de Provence - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : @marind marin.dacos@revues.org http://www.revues.org - http://cleo.cnrs.fr http://leo.hypotheses.org - http://cleoradar.hypotheses.org http://blog.homo-numericus.net --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 13:20:40 +0100 (BST) From: peter jones Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? In-Reply-To: <20110603223641.0E8E515266D@woodward.joyent.us> I would be pleased to assist Mark. There is an eclectic mix of items on "Welcome to the QUAD": http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ - health, nursing, informatics, education, socio-technical, journals .... Also interested in conferences on related themes especially for 2012... I've a sociology/humanities listing here: http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links3.htm - which could also list your journal. [I'm seeking subscribers & followers for my blog, been 'stuck' on 460 for ages.] Best wishes with your project. Peter ------ Peter Jones 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 Sat Jun 4 20:04:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C35B1518BB; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:04:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EB6A11518A2; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:04:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110604200443.EB6A11518A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:04:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.65 metadata for time-based 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. 25, No. 65. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 09:54:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Deena Engel Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.61 metadata for time-based media In-Reply-To: <20110603223556.23FC1152630@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Adrian Miles, With respect to capturing metadata on time-based media, you might find both information and community through the Electronic Media Group wiki of the American Institute for conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (http://www.conservation-wiki.com/index.php?title=Electronic_Media) as well as the U.s. Library of Congress project, PREMIS (http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/) Regards, Deena Engel New York University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 5 23:17:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06896153E7A; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:17:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 79538153E6B; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:17:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110605231727.79538153E6B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:17:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.66 where to announce an online journal X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 66. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 05:22:08 +0100 From: "Clark, Stephen" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.64 where to announce an online journal In-Reply-To: <20110604200307.6BBBA15183F@woodward.joyent.us> If the journal is to include philosophical work then it can be announced on Philos-L, which is the principal elist for philosophy (5000+ members in 57+ countries). See http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html To have mail posted there either join the list and post it yourself (better by email than using the webpage, which has a tendency to distort the format of the post), or else send it direct to me, at srlclark@liv.ac.uk with a request that I forward it. Stephen Clark Prof Stephen R.L.Clark Emeritus Professor, Dept of Philosophy, University of Liverpool Honorary Research Fellow, Dept of Theology, University of Bristol Associate Editor, British Journal for the History of Philosophy http://www.liv.ac.uk/info/staff/A639849 http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~srlclark/srlc.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 5 23:18:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2B2153F03; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:18:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D31CB153EFC; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:18:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110605231831.D31CB153EFC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:18:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.67 PhD studentship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 67. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 10:07:13 +0100 From: Charlotte Roueche Subject: un appel d’offre à candidature pour un contrat doctoral > Sujet: APPEL D'OFFRE Er-TIM ALIENTO à diffuser > Date : Thu, 2 Jun 2011 08:16:12 +0200 > De : Sabetay et Marie Christine Varol > Chers collègues, faites circuler cet appel d’offre (en France et à > l’étranger) afin que nous puissions trouver de bons candidats. > > Marie-Christine Bornes Varol > > De : DRED-INALCO [mailto:dred@inalco.fr] > Envoyé : mardi 31 mai 2011 16:27 > À : DRED INALCO > Objet : TR: APPEL D'OFFRE - CONTRAT DOCTORAL INALCO > > Bonjour, > > Veuillez trouver ci-joint un appel d’offre à candidature pour un > contrat doctoral : > > Titre de la recherche : MÉTHODES ET OUTILS DE LA FOUILLE DE TEXTES > MULTILINGUES POUR LES HUMANITÉS NUMÉRIQUES. > > Domaine : Sémantique, linguistique de corpus, TAL, e-humanities > Lieux : INALCO-Recherche, Paris. > Equipes d'Accueil : Equipe de recherche en Textes, Informatique, > Multilinguisme (ERTIM) en collaboration avec d’autres unités de > recherche de > l’INALCO > > Pour plus de renseignement, se reporter à la page : > http://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2356 > > MERCI DE DIFFUSER LARGEMENT > > > > --------------------------------------- > INALCO - http://www.inalco.fr/ http://www.inalco.fr/ > Direction de la recherche et de l'école doctorale > 49 bis avenue de la belle Gabrielle > 75012 - Paris > Tél : 01 80 51 95 02 > Fax : 01 80 51 95 49 ---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies King's College London WC2R 2LS direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515 fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 5 23:19:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95C2153F71; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:19:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 418AD153F60; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:19:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110605231937.418AD153F60@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:19:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.68 metadata models? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 68. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 22:57:02 +0200 From: Dolores Romero Subject: Metadata Models for Language and Literature Learning Objects Dear colleagues, With respect to metadata models, we would be pleased if somebody could send us some references about Metadata Models for Languages and Literatures Learning Objects. We have found many general models, but no specific ones for our research interest (Filology). Dolores Romero Universidad Complutense https://portal.ucm.es/web/masteres-filologia/master-en-literatura-espanola. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 5 23:20:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B27153FD0; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:20:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D35C153FBF; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:20:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110605232044.7D35C153FBF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:20:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.69 events: Wikipedia trifft Altertum X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 69. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 14:32:07 -0700 From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Antiquity and Wikipedia Some of you may find this upcoming event ( which I only bring up here because, excuse me if I'm mistaken, I believe it has not yet been mentioned on this or related lists ) to be of some interest : "Wikipedia trifft Altertum - 10./11. Juni 2011, Universität Göttingen" See : http://www.dainst.org/en/event/wikipedia-trifft-altertum?ft=all The program can be found at : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_trifft_Altertum/Programm - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 7 20:33:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0208F15502F; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:33:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BDF7215501E; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:33:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110607203343.BDF7215501E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.70 metadata for time-based 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. 25, No. 70. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:34:59 +0100 From: Virginia Knight Subject: metadata schemas for time-based media? My colleagues at JISC Digital Media have produced an article 'Metadata and Digital Video': http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/movingimages/advice/metadata-and-digital-video which may be helpful. 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 Tue Jun 7 20:35:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2859D1550B3; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:35:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B20C11550AB; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:35:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110607203555.B20C11550AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:35:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.71 jobs at Maynooth (Ireland) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 71. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:39:36 +0100 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: NAVR Research Positions at NUI Maynooth NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REGIONAL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS (NIRSA)/ AN FORAS FEASA The National Audio-Visual Repository (NAVR) The NAVR research consortium is comprised of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin Institute of Technology, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth and Trinity College Dublin. It brings together leading researchers in the humanities and social sciences, library services and high-end computing, drawing on national research and graduate training programmes and structures such as the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP), Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS), the Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing (TCHPC) and the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO). The NAVR will build a single, unified, accessible and sustainable Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) and access repository for the humanities and qualitative social sciences in Ireland with common data and metadata standards, formats, access rights, and research tools. It will consolidate and make accessible social sciences, arts and cultural data, collections and audio-visual archives. It will: Form a centralised resource to ensure that all future digitisation, archiving and qualitative research projects are NAVR compliant; --Allow new constituencies to interact with digitisation activities and datasets created by key national cultural organisations, opening these up to a wider public, including schools; --Concentrate research resources and add value to funded outputs by promoting innovative secondary, longitudinal and comparative analysis of existing data and make important datasets available for innovative analysis; --Build Ireland’s capacity to interface with similar developing EU research infrastructures (e.g. DARIAH, CLARIN, CESSSDA, Europeana), creating opportunities to leverage significant EU funding for future developments in this area. The NAVR is funded through Cycle 5 of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions administered by the HEA and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). - Policy Manager in the National Audio-Visual Repository, Four Year Contract Post (http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=1412) - Software Engineer in the National Audio-Visual Repository, Two Year Contract and Four Year Contract - Two Posts (http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=1432) - Requirements Analyst in the National Audio-Visual Repository, Two Year Contract Post (http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=1396) The National University of Ireland Maynooth Following two centuries of internationally renowned scholarly activity on the Maynooth campus the National University of Ireland, Maynooth was established under the 1997 Universities Act as an autonomous member of the federal structure known as the National University of Ireland. It is located on a pleasant university campus in Ireland’s only university town 20km west of Dublin, and has recently undergone a major phase of expansion in research, teaching and service facilities. The spacious campus is laid out in its own extensive grounds in rural surroundings, and is divided between an older complex of fine nineteenth century buildings and a modern complex of teaching, research, accommodation, and support facilities. The University has over 8,000 students; around 10% are from overseas. The student and faculty bodies are drawn from all over Ireland and from more than 50 countries. This diversity makes NUI Maynooth an exciting multi-cultural learning community. The University has a long tradition of international contacts, working with a large number of prestigious higher education institutions around the world in teaching and research collaborations. We actively participate in the ERASMUS exchange programme, and other Inter-University Co-operation programmes (ICPs), and use the European Community Course Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND Email: john.keating@nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 4797 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 7 20:39:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A66155180; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:39:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 89D65155179; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:39:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110607203916.89D65155179@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:39:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.72 events: cultural heritage (NZ); preservation (UK) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 72. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Baker, Drew" (8) Subject: REMINDER: Preservation of Complex Digital Objects Symposium (POCOS) 16-17th July King's College London [2] From: Willard Mccarty (13) Subject: FW: CFP National Digital Forum 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:46:02 +0100 From: "Baker, Drew" Subject: REMINDER: Preservation of Complex Digital Objects Symposium (POCOS) 16-17th July King's College London Dear colleagues, Registration for the POCOS symposium at King’s on 16-17th June will be closing at the end of the week, if you were planning to attend please register at the POCOS website, we do have a few places still reserved for KCL staff but these will be reallocated next week. Even if you are only peripherally interested in the long term preservation of complex digital objects we have an impressive line up of presentations and delegates from very diverse disciplines. The project website can be found at http://www.pocos.org/ And registration at http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration If you use the priority code KCL then it will help me with some of the administration Best wishes Drew Baker Department of Digital Humanities --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:16:30 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: FW: CFP National Digital Forum 2011 In-Reply-To: Hi All, CFP is currently open for the National Digital Forum (NDF) - New Zealand, November 2011. NDF is a coalition of libraries, archives, museums, galleries, government departments and other organisations and individuals working to get New Zealand’s culture and heritage online and accessible to all. The annual NDF conference is an opportunity for members and others interested in the culture, heritage, research and digital creation sectors to showcase all that is most exciting in our sector at the moment, and discuss the issues and opportunities that are shaping our future. http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2011-conference.htm Regards, Sally Sally Leggo | Digital Content Officer Centre for Cultural Research | University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 P: 9685 9524 | F: 9685 9610 E: s.leggo@uws.edu.au | W: http://uws.edu.au/ccr Twitter: www.twitter.com/ccr_uws The University of Western Sydney has received the highest ranking for research quality in Cultural Studies (Excellence in Research for Australia 2010) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 8 21:16:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFD2155C86; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:16:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A55B155C3B; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:16:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:16:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 73. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:21:36 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital projects Dear colleagues, I am looking around for notable research projects that exemplify the best of what's going on in the digital humanities these days. The purpose of the collection I hope to assemble is to give colleagues here, at Western Sydney, examples with which to think about what might be done in the area we're calling "digital cultural research". Projects with a particular focus on contemporary social situations and problems would be most relevant as far as subject matter is concerned, but I do not want to exclude any notable for the methods they use just because they are concerned with, say, ancient Sumer. So, if you would, nominate what you think is most worth looking at for whatever reason. And please do not exclude projects of your own! All suggestions made here in response to this query will be published on Humanist. Many thanks for your suggestions. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 8 21:19:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50796155E42; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:19:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3E04155E11; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:19:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110608211902.B3E04155E11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:19:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.74 new publications: history; text-encoding; humanities & arts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 74. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mylonas, Elli" (27) Subject: CFP: Writing History in the Digital Age [2] From: Susan Schreibman (44) Subject: launch of inaugural issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative [3] From: Roderick Coover (26) Subject: New Book in Digital Humanities and Arts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:20:35 -0400 From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: CFP: Writing History in the Digital Age CALL FOR IDEAS & ESSAYS: Writing History in the Digital Age http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu Has the digital revolution transformed how we write about the past -- or not? Have new technologies changed our essential work-craft as scholars, and the ways in which we think, author, and publish? Does the digital age have broader implications for individual writing processes, or for the historical profession at large? Explore these questions in Writing History in the Digital Age, a born-digital, open-review edited volume, under contract with the University of Michigan Press for the Digital Humanities Series of its digitalculturebooks imprint. Learn more at: http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu We invite you to contribute in the following ways: - Post your one-paragraph theme and discuss other ideas by June 30th, 2011. - Submit a full draft of your essay and bibliography by August 15th, 2011. - Comment on essays, with invited experts, during the open review in Fall 2011. Pending final selections, revisions, and approval by the Press, the volume will be published in traditional print and open-access digital versions. We welcome innovative essays that incorporate first-person perspectives, collaborative authorship, and links to online source materials. But each essay, at its core, must address our central theme on digital technology and historical writing. Read more about essay ideas, post your own, and join the discussion at our website above. Co-editors: Jack Dougherty (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA) and Kristen Nawrotzki (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:26:41 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: launch of inaugural issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative On behalf of the editors of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI), I am delighted to announce the publication of the first issue of this new peer-reviewed publication: http://jtei.revues.org/ This issue, guest edited by Syd Bauman, Kevin Hawkins, and Malte Rehbein, contains selected papers presented at the 2008 and 2009 conferences and members' meetings: - John Unsworth - Computational Work with Very Large Text Collections: Interoperability, Sustainability, and the TEI - Tanya Clement - Knowledge Representation and Digital Scholarly Editions in Theory and Practice - Thomas Schmidt - A TEI-based Approach to Standardising Spoken Language Transcription - Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, Cara Leitch, Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Karin Armstrong, and Melanie Chernyk - ‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’: TEI-encoded Dylan and Understanding the Scope of an Evolving Community of Practice The journal is published by the TEI Consortium on Revues.org (http://www.revues.org/6438?lang=en) the web platform for journals and book collections of Cléo, the French Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (http://cleo.cnrs.fr/). jTEI's home is at http://jtei.revues.org/ where you can find information about the journal as well as links to the journal's administrative website http://journal.tei-c.org/, which is used for managing the submission, review, and editing process. I hope you enjoy reading this issue. Please consider contributing to the journal by submitting articles for future issues. We also welcome ideas for special issues. Susan Schreibman Editor-in-Chief Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:01:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Roderick Coover Subject: New Book in Digital Humanities and Arts Announcing the publication of a new book in digital humanities and arts: SWITCHING CODES: THINKING THROUGH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS Edited by Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover University of Chicago Press, 2011 Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion. Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings together leading American and European scholars, scientists, and artists—including Charles Bernstein, Ian Foster, Bruno Latour, Alan Liu, and Richard Powers—to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies are transforming the ways we think and act. Employing a wide range of forms, including essay, dialogue, short fiction, and game design, this book aims to model and foster discussion between IT specialists, who typically have scant training in the humanities or traditional arts, and scholars and artists, who often understand little about the technologies that are so radically transforming their fields. Switching Codes will be an indispensable volume for anyone seeking to understand the impact of digital technology on contemporary culture, including scientists, educators, policymakers, and artists, alike. 448 pages | 40 halftones, 4 line drawings | 6 x 9 | © 2011 URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo6027946.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 8 21:20:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF10155F35; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:20:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 198FD155EF8; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:20:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110608212022.198FD155EF8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:20:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of 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. 25, No. 75. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:12:55 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: growth of Humanist Only a few here will know that every year I give a report on Humanist to the committees of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and now to the umbrella organization, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Anyhow, this gives me the opportunity to take a look at gross figures of membership and number of messages per year. On this occasion, just prior to the Digital Humanities conference at Stanford, I was pleased to be able to report the most messages exchanged on Humanist since records began (926, up 7 from the previous high, in 1996-7), and the highest number of members, 1645, up 127 from the previous year. This morning, however, I received the greatest number of applications to join that I've ever seen in one day, 11. The total membership is now at 1658. Given the population of the world these are not huge numbers. But given the number of ways in which digital humanists and interpretative social scientists can communicate now, it seems quite remarkable to me. So, on this early Sydney morning, promising a most beautiful winter day, I thought I'd pass some professional cheer around. Mazel tov! All the best. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 8 21:22:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FD215508F; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:22:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8112C15507F; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:22:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110608212218.8112C15507F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:22:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.76 events: semantic archives; libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 76. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doug Reside (31) Subject: NYPL Event: Digital Humanities and the Future of Libraries [2] From: "Steffen Hennicke" (87) Subject: 2nd CfP - Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:03:08 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: NYPL Event: Digital Humanities and the Future of Libraries A conversation in honor of Dr. Paul LeClerc with: Kari Kraus, Jon Orwant, Dot Porter and Doug Reside Presented by NYPL Labs Thursday, June 16, 2011, 4 p.m. Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2011/06/16/digital-humanities-and-future-libraries Since the early days of the field, Digital Humanities practitioners have frequently found allies and collaborators in librarians and archivists. Many early digital humanities projects centered around organizing and making accessible information--two activities at the core of the mission of almost every library. Perhaps for this reason, many of the largest digital humanities centers are physically situated in and often at least partially funded by University libraries. Nonetheless, the field has traditionally been led (with a few notable exceptions) by faculty from humanities departments rather than by library staff, and libraries have tended to isolate digital humanities centers as somewhat quarantined departments separate from the daily work of the institution. However, as both digital humanities and librarianship develop in the 21st century, there are indications that these walls of separation are beginning to erode. In this panel discussion, NYPL Digital Curator for the Performing Arts, Doug Reside, and three digital humanists from very different backgrounds will discuss the future of libraries and the digital humanities and how these two related, but as yet mostly separate fields, may (or may not) finally converge. This event is held in honor of outgoing NYPL President Dr. Paul LeClerc, whose vision and passionate advocacy have advanced the frontiers of digital humanities innovation at the Library. The event is sponsored by NYPL Labs, a collaborative team of librarians, curators and technologists developing new ideas and tools for digital research. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:42:50 +0200 From: "Steffen Hennicke" Subject: 2nd CfP - Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** International Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable long-term curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage" to be held as part of the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). 29.09.2011 in Berlin http://sda2011.dke-research.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES: The Semantic Digital Archives Workshop aims at promoting and discussing sophisticated knowledge representation and knowledge management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival Information Systems. Over the past couple of decades, digitally created content has come to permeate all aspects of our lives and the life cycle of these objects is increasingly exclusively digital. Therefore, sustainable long-term curation perspectives for our digital cultural heritage are essential. Digital content poses many socio-cultural and technological challenges which create obstacles to long-term or indefinite preservation. Changing technologies and shifting user communities as well as the increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with software and multimedia attachments are only a few examples. Dealing with these challenges is the central theme of the workshop. This full day workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the Digital Libraries, the Digital Archives and the Semantic Web community. It specifically encourages closer dialogue between the technical oriented communities and researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences as well as cultural heritage institutions. TOPICS OF INTEREST: We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general subject of Semantic Digital Archives. The following list of topics is meant as an initial guide. Hence, we welcome contributions that focus on, but are not limited to: * ontologies and linked data for digital archives and digital libraries, e.g. semantic extensions of common knowledge models of the digital archiving and digital libraries domain, e.g. METS, EAD, PREMIS, ... * ontologies and (semantic) web services implementing the OAIS standard * theoretical and practical archiving frameworks extending or replacing the OAIS standard * logical theories for digital archives * implementations and evaluations of digital archives * semantic or logical provenance models for digital archives or digital libraries * information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) * trust for ingest and data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records * semantic search and semantic information retrieval in digital archives and digital libraries * visualization and exploration of digital content (stored or to be stored in a digital archive) * semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for digital archives * migration strategies based on semantic (web) technologies * semantic long-term storage and hardware organization tailored for AIS * (empirical) studies evaluating end-user needs and its evolution as well as information seeking behaviour of end-user needs and its evolution * knowledge evolution SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: * regular papers (10 to 12 pages) * short papers (4 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in pdf format. Long and short paper submissions should be in the Springer's LNCS format. Submissions are to be made via the submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2011 Submissions will be reviewed by the three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives Workshop must be presented during the Workshop by a SDA Workshop registered participant. All papers will be published in workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Workshop IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for Submissions: 30 June 2011 * Acceptance Notification: 30. July 2011 * Camera-ready Papers: 20. August 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee members are mentioned at: http://sda2011.dke-research.de/index.php/committees FURTHER DETAILS: http://sda2011.dke-research.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 9 20:34:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5A01561C3; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:34:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 229DA1561B7; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:34:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110609203452.229DA1561B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:34:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.77 digital projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 77. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leif Isaksen (75) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? [2] From: Kathie Gossett (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:56:19 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? In-Reply-To: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> G'day Willard First, a big congratulations to Humanist - it's great to see you going so strong after all these years. Antiquist salutes you! :-) For me some of the most interesting research starting to come out is in terms of content co-creation. Obviously there's been ground-breaking work in crowdsourcing already (you know who you are ;-) ) and museums have been working in this area too, thanks to their public remit (It is now one of the main themes at DISH http://www.dish2011.nl/). Where I think we might reach a real tipping point, however is in creating virtuous cycles by balancing the motivations of different stakeholder (esp. researchers & targeted public interest groups) and using mobile media to help embed it in people's everyday lives. It's a little too early to say for sure what will work (and I'm sure there will be failures along the way) but I'm keeping an eye on projects such as http://heritagecrowd.org/ and http://billiongraves.com/ Wether or not they've got the balance quite right yet, I think we can all learn a lot from their experience. Obviously my funders would never forgive me if I didn't say that Pelagios (http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com) was also doing some pretty exciting work to spatially interconnect resources between archaeology, classics and digital libraries but I'll let you and others be the judge of that ;-) Best Leif On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 73. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:21:36 +1000 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: digital projects > > Dear colleagues, > > I am looking around for notable research projects that exemplify the > best of what's going on in the digital humanities these days. The > purpose of the collection I hope to assemble is to give colleagues here, > at Western Sydney, examples with which to think about what might be done > in the area we're calling "digital cultural research". Projects with a > particular focus on contemporary social situations and problems would be > most relevant as far as subject matter is concerned, but I do not want > to exclude any notable for the methods they use just because they are > concerned with, say, ancient Sumer. So, if you would, nominate what you > think is most worth looking at for whatever reason. And please do not > exclude projects of your own! > > All suggestions made here in response to this query will be published on > Humanist. > > Many thanks for your suggestions. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:41:21 -0400 From: Kathie Gossett Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? In-Reply-To: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> There is a project at Michigan State that might be of interest to you: Archive 2.0: Imagining the Michigan State University Israelite Samaritan Scroll Collection as the Foundation for a Thriving Social Network. The description of the project can be found here: http://wide.msu.edu/special/archive/. I believe they are still in the process of actually building the archive, but I'm sure any of the PIs would be happy to provide more information about the status of the project. Kathie _______________________________ Kathie Gossett, PhD Asst. Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & New Media Co-Director, CeME Lab Department of English Old Dominion University (757) 683-5818 kgossett@odu.edu www.kathiegossett.com ceme.digitalodu.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 9 20:36:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAF1156252; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:36:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0F0D15623E; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:36:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110609203600.A0F0D15623E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:36:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.78 growth of 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. 25, No. 78. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (5) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of Humanist [2] From: "Joe Raben" (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of Humanist --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:49:12 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of Humanist In-Reply-To: <20110608212022.198FD155EF8@woodward.joyent.us> Highly commendable. Thank you for sharing. Good wishes to all participants. DP --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:03:13 -0400 From: "Joe Raben" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of Humanist In-Reply-To: <20110608212022.198FD155EF8@woodward.joyent.us> Congratulations, Willard! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 9 20:38:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C1D15637F; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:38:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F9B7156376; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:38:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110609203836.2F9B7156376@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:38:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.79 jobs: outreach librarian (Michigan); studentship, anthropology (Oxford) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 79. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "McCollough, Aaron" (36) Subject: Job Posting at Univ. of Michigan [2] From: David Zeitlyn (41) Subject: Fully funded AHRC 3-year Studentship in visual anthropology at Oxford --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:15:09 -0400 From: "McCollough, Aaron" Subject: Job Posting at Univ. of Michigan Text Creation Partnership Project Outreach Librarian The University of Michigan Library and Oxford University Library have collaborated for several years with three corporate partners, ProQuest Information and Learning, Readex-Newsbank and Gale Cengage Learning, in an international effort to create structurally marked-up full-text transcriptions of early English and American printed books, dating from 1475 to 1800, on behalf of a large and growing academic consortium, the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/. About 48,000 texts have been produced so far, towards a goal of 80,000, representing a substantial portion of the nearly 300,000 books contained in the subscription databases from which they are transcribed: Early English Books Online (EEBO), Evans Early American Imprints, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ProQuest, Readex, and Gale supply the page images; Michigan and Oxford oversee the keying and SGML/XML tagging; and the partner libraries own the resulting corpus. This is arguably the largest and most significant full-text project of its kind undertaken to date, not least in that it is being done under terms that reflect the needs and values of libraries and scholars. Through 2014, the primary focus of the TCP is to produce around 44,000 texts for a second phase of the EEBO-TCP partnership (the first phase, which ended in 2009, produced around 25,000 texts). The Text Creation Partnership Project Outreach Librarian will be appointed as a Librarian (or equivalent professional classification) at the University Library and will work under the supervision of the Associate University Librarian for Publishing. The Outreach Librarian will be housed in the MPublishing division at the University of Michigan Library and will interact with a wide range of staff throughout the Library system. The University of Michigan is a national leader in digital library development and the Project Outreach Librarian will be working with skilled digital library and electronic publishing specialists as well as leading collection, service, and processing librarians at Michigan, Oxford, ProQuest, and the libraries funding and supporting the project. THIS IS A THREE YEAR TERM-LIMITED APPOINTMENT with possibilities for extension. The Project Outreach Librarian is eligible for all the benefits available to employees at the University of Michigan. Responsibilities Communication and Marketing: (40%) - develop and implement plans for disseminating information about the TCP project, via print, web-based and personal communication, to potential TCP funding partners as well as to existing partner libraries and their patrons, both students and faculty, worldwide. The goal is to make libraries aware of the project, its significance for research and pedagogy, and the beneficial licensing terms that result from its cooperative structure. The marketing components of this position include significant follow-up and communication with potential partners, as well as presenting about the project and its significance at academic and library professional association meetings. Facilitation of scholarship: (30%) - serve as the voice of, and liaison with, the scholarly user community as regards the composition of the corpus, the development of tools associated with it, and its practical application to research and instruction. Oversee usability studies of the corpus, changes in its interface design, and the preparation of documentation and instruction, with a view toward improving both its potential for sophisticated research and its ease of use for students. Requires a thorough understanding of the corpus and its connections to related digital corpora, as well as a broad view of its possible uses in widely diverse fields. Project Administration: (30%) - maintain close communication with and provide support for the AUL for Publishing, production coordinator, and international TCP Executive Committee. Work closely with the Library Finance Office to monitor the budget and partner invoicing process. Communicate regularly with colleagues at Oxford and other interested parties. To reinforce these activities, the TCP Project Outreach Librarian will be encouraged to use the collections and resources of the University of Michigan to better understand how the TCP project will fit into the overall collection and service efforts of research libraries, and their interaction with campus scholars in support of research and instruction. Qualifications Required: * ALA-accredited Master’s Degree, or an equivalent combination of a relevant advanced degree and a minimum of two years of work experience in 1) a research library or archive, 2) scholarly publishing, or 3) university teaching. * Significant undergraduate or graduate study in an aspect of British history, English language or literature, or western civilization. * Demonstrated facility with scholarly electronic resources, and experience in the development of Web resources. * Excellent oral and written communication skills as evidenced in part by a record of scholarly publication and conference presentation. * Demonstrated ability to work effectively with culturally diverse faculty, students, and staff. Desired: * Knowledge of research library collection development strategies and the impact of digitization on collection development and use. * Familiarity with structured electronic text and the use of textual analysis systems for the study of history, politics, philosophy, history of science, religion, literature, law, and/or linguistics. * Knowledge of markup standards and production systems for digital library creation. * Familiarity with the market for digital resources in the humanities. * Knowledge of scholarly communication patterns in the humanities. Benefits, Rank and Salary It is anticipated the position will be filled at the Assistant Librarian or Associate Librarian level. Final rank and salary are dependent on experience and qualifications. Librarians receive 24 days of vacation a year, 15 days of sick leave a year with provisions for extended benefits, as well as opportunities for professional development and travel. Further information regarding benefits can be found at http://benefits.umich.edu/benefitgroups/faculty.html. Retirement Options: TIAA-CREF and Fidelity Investments options available. Application Process Email a cover letter and CV as attachments to libhumres@umich.edu addressed to: Jane Havens Head of Library Human Resources 404 Hatcher Graduate Library North University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 For further information, call 734-764-2546 between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday. Application Deadline Review of applications will begin on June 15, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Michigan is a non-discriminatory, affirmative action employer. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:12:12 +0100 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Fully funded AHRC 3-year Studentship in visual anthropology at Oxford AHRC 3-year DPhil collaborative studentship to be held in the SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY & MUSEUM ETHNOGRAPHY, University of Oxford (in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute ) Following the award of an AHRC collaborative studentship to Professor David Zeitlyn (ISCA) and Dr Chris Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum) for 'Responses to archival images in UK and Nigeria', a 3-year fully funded AHRC studentship will be available to the best-qualified candidate. The successful candidate will be expected to carry out research for a doctorate in anthropology on the reception of images from the RAI archive in Nigeria and in the Nigerian diaspora in the UK, supervised jointly by Professor David Zeitlyn and Dr Chris Morton. The student will scan and prepare an exhibition of early photographs from the RAI archives and then study its reception in UK and Nigeria. Candidates should be able to demonstrate an interest in the study of photography and a commitment to ethnographic fieldwork in Nigeria and the UK. They should have a good Master's degree and/or first degree in anthropology, Museum Studies or African Studies.* *See http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/funding/ahrc/ for more information* *best wishes davidz -- David Zeitlyn, Professor of Social Anthropology (research) Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/academic/professor-david-zeitlyn/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/ http://about.me/david.zeitlyn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 9 20:41:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E8615644F; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:41:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 11F74156445; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:41:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110609204144.11F74156445@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:41:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.80 events: Digital Classicist 10 June (London) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 80. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:56:00 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday June 10th at 16:30 Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU David Scott & Mike Jackson (Edinburgh) 'Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data' ALL WELCOME The SPQR project (http://spqr.cerch.kcl.ac.uk) is investigating the integration of heterogeneous datasets relating to Classical antiquity via Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies to produce an intuitive way for researchers to explore the data. EpiDoc XML (including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania) has been converted into Linked Data. In addition to relationships arising from shared properties of the objects, such as the materials from which they are made, there are links to external resources such as the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. A user evaluation by classicists at KCL of the tools and techniques used is under way. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.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 Sat Jun 11 20:42:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558FF158FAF; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:42:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7EB9A158F9D; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:42:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611204242.7EB9A158F9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:42:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.81 thanks for the help X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 81. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:49:37 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Thank you for announcement venues Just a brief thanks to everyone all of whose terrific suggestions I'll be using for my journal announcement. All the Best, Mark Winokur _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:44:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00078158018; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:44:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 539C3158004; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:44:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611204428.539C3158004@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:44:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.82 digital projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 82. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:54:07 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? In-Reply-To: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> Hello Willard, Here at Reed College, staff in the library and IT department have been collaborating with faculty members in various departments on a diverse array of digital humanities projects. The collections can be viewed at Reed Digital Collections http://cdm.reed.edu/ . Best, -- Joanna Burgess Digital Assets Librarian Reed College Library 503-517-7629 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:47:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59922158074; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:47:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C28B158065; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:47:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611204741.1C28B158065@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:47:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.83 list of modern surnames? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 83. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:28:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.80 events: Digital Classicist 10 June (London) In-Reply-To: <20110609204144.11F74156445@woodward.joyent.us> I'm glad for the reference to GeoNames (http://www.geonames.org/). On a different subject: is there an extensive list of modern surnames (say, from 1500 forward)? I have a project to create an hyperlinked index of the 1904 Dictionary of National Biography. Part of the challenge is to spell-check the names. The few lists I have found are narrow in scope. Bob Blair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:49:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CE11580BF; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:49:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9024E1580B6; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:49:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611204927.9024E1580B6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:49:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.84 events: identities in American lit X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 84. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:47:09 +0100 From: Kaja Marczewska Subject: CFP: Performing Identities in American Literature, Durham, Uk,September 10th 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS “Through me many long dumb voices”: Performing Identities in American Literature Department of English Studies, University of Durham September 10th 2011 Performing Identities in American Literature seeks to explore the ways in which American identity is defined, enacted and contested in texts from the sixteenth century up to the present day. Tapping into the influential, yet highly contradictory visions of identity which have dominated the modern field of American Studies, in which multiculturalist and pluralist critiques of a unified national sensibility are set against the “indifference to difference” of an increasing cosmopolitanism (Michaels, 2004), the event invites fresh discussion of the identities contained and performed beneath the umbrella term “democracy”. By expanding a consideration of the performative beyond the more obviously dramatic aspects of text, we aim to provide a forum for debating the role played by the theatrical dimensions of the imaginary within American literary identities, highlighting the staging of belonging and exclusion that has shaped writers’ responses for more than four centuries. In the interest of broadening the scope of discussion, we invite abstract submissions for papers of between 20 and 40 minutes in length. Presentations are welcomed in a variety of formats, from single and joint papers to lecture performances and works-in-progress. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to: • Patriotism and anti-patriotism: narratives of belonging and exclusion • Migration, immigration and inward expatriation • Propaganda and nationalism/exceptionalism • Staging the past: re-writing history as literature • Issues of authenticity: difficulties inherent in enacting race/class/nation • “Textualising” the body and bodily experience • Metatextuality and self-reflexive performativity • The evolving identity and cultural mythology of the American writer • Multiplicity and cosmopolitanism: new directions for American literature Please submit your name, institutional affiliation and abstract of up to 300 words to PerformingAmerica@gmail.com by the deadline of July 31st 2011. Further information and updates can be found at the symposium website: PerformingAmerica.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 11 21:41:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5A215860D; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:41:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3B1671585FE; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:41:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611214115.3B1671585FE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:41:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 85. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:20:29 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: historical reflection? This is a very broad, perhaps foolishly unanswerable question, perhaps not. It is this: what triggers historical reflection? When do we pause in our anticipations of what is to come to look back on what has been? Personally this is, I'm sure, an interesting thing to ponder, also neurologically, as a question of long-term memory. But what about the accumulation of institutional, professional, disciplinary memory? When, for example, did people in English studies or Anthropology first stop worrying about establishing their discipline and start to wonder about its history? This can, of course, overlap with the personal history of the founders, e.g. in the case of English studies at Cambridge, with E. M. W. Tillyard's The Muse Unchained (1958), published 4 years before his death. But I suspect there's more than an old person's ruminatory inclinations involved here. Specific cases of historical reflection pioneered by mid-career academics would help. Are there other ways in which this could be picked apart? Has anyone studied the phenomenon? As far as I know the relationship between memory and historiography is a relatively recent thing, begun by Paul Fussell, in The Great War and Modern Memory (1975). The historiographical problem of memory is bound up with the debate over whether recent history can be called history, or more intelligently, how recent history is properly done. But, I'd suppose, the inclination to think historically is common to both. I'd like to know more about that. Many thanks for any leads. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 12 20:06:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24408158BEB; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:06:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 192CC158BD7; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:06:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110612200605.192CC158BD7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.86 historical reflection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 86. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Todd Lawson (57) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? [2] From: Mark Winokur (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:50:20 -0400 From: Todd Lawson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? In-Reply-To: <20110611214115.3B1671585FE@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard The question-if I follow you- is controversial in Jewish studies and Islamic Studies because so much is said to depend on memory. A key book here is B Gerhardsson, Memory and Manuscript (Copenhagen 1964) which is on Jewish and Christian history & historiography. Prodigious memory is also a positive historiographical principle in islamic traditional histories and one which has also become controversial in recent decades. This would relate to the "narratological" role of memory and not the iconic or "art of memory(e.g. Yates)" role as found in Bruno and others memory theatres. But crisscossing seems inevitable. A related question is: how can we judge how people "felt" the passage of time? Was a century in 100 CE as long or as short as a century is today? We know time does speed up in certain circumstances, but does the 20th century bring with it a distinctive version or notion of the passing of historical time? One assumes it does (can time be the same after photography is just one immediate problem that arises). The Invention of Tradition seems also relevant here. Todd Lawson On Jun 11, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 85. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:20:29 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: historical reflection? > > This is a very broad, perhaps foolishly unanswerable question, perhaps > not. It is this: what triggers historical reflection? When do we pause > in our anticipations of what is to come to look back on what has been? > Personally this is, I'm sure, an interesting thing to ponder, also > neurologically, as a question of long-term memory. But what about the > accumulation of institutional, professional, disciplinary memory? When, > for example, did people in English studies or Anthropology first stop > worrying about establishing their discipline and start to wonder about > its history? This can, of course, overlap with the personal history of > the founders, e.g. in the case of English studies at Cambridge, with E. > M. W. Tillyard's The Muse Unchained (1958), published 4 years before his > death. But I suspect there's more than an old person's ruminatory > inclinations involved here. Specific cases of historical reflection > pioneered by mid-career academics would help. Are there other ways in > which this could be picked apart? Has anyone studied the phenomenon? > > As far as I know the relationship between memory and historiography is a > relatively recent thing, begun by Paul Fussell, in The Great War and > Modern Memory (1975). The historiographical problem of memory is bound > up with the debate over whether recent history can be called history, or > more intelligently, how recent history is properly done. But, I'd > suppose, the inclination to think historically is common to both. I'd > like to know more about that. > > Many thanks for any leads. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:25:06 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? In-Reply-To: <20110611214115.3B1671585FE@woodward.joyent.us> So far from thinking this foolish, I believe it to be a terrific graduate or faculty seminar topic. I might at least begin with these texts: Habermas on "Modernism: an Incomplete Project," who believes that we become reflective about what we do from the get-go as a way of distinguishing our own moment as special and different from what came before. Then there is that line of romantic philosophy/poetry that understands reflection on the past as possible only after the activity -- the object of reflection -- is past. For Marxists like Fredric Jameson or Louis Althusser, history is perhaps best defined as the process of selective forgetting. Institutions remember what they need to remember in order to ensure their own survival. As for academics thinking about academia, here are some suggestive titles: Hollinger, /Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II /Bledstein, /The Culture of Professionalism/ Graff, /Professing Literature/ Ohmann, /English in America: A Radical View of the Profession/ Best, Mark _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 12 20:07:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85064158C6A; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:07:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4DE16158C37; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:07:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110612200734.4DE16158C37@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:07:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.87 list of modern surnames 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. 25, No. 87. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:39:03 -0700 From: "Karl Grossner" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.83 list of modern surnames? In-Reply-To: <20110611204741.1C28B158065@woodward.joyent.us> The Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL (CASA, http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk) have been working on surnames for a number of years, both for GB and globally: http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/ http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/ ____________________________ Karl Grossner Center for Spatial Studies University of California, Santa Barbara _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 02:40:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD8715791F; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B322D157905; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:40:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613024034.B322D157905@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:40:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.89 Order of Australia for John Burrows X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 89. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:39:18 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: John Burrows, AM Professor John Burrows (Newcastle, NSW) has been named in the Queen's Birthday Honours List as Member of the Order of Australia, "For service to education in the fields of computational stylistics and English literature as an academic and researcher." (See http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/awards/medals/member_order_australia.cfm for information about the award.) The timing couldn't be better: a symposium in his honour, "Language Individuation", is taking place early next month in Newcastle; see http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/groups/cllc/2011-symposium.html for more about it. Congratulations, John! Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 13 20:07:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A621E159DFF; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:07:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57DDE159DD0; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:07:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613200741.57DDE159DD0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:07:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.90 digital projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 90. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:46:07 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? In-Reply-To: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I share with pleasure what is going on at the University of Lausanne and in Switzerland. - First of all, Humanties have now a permanent website with diverse informations: www.infoclio.ch - At the University of Lausanne, an interdisciplinary team of researchers is leading a plateform called «Humanités Digitales@Unil», that has begun in march 2011 and will continue during the all year. We are the first Swiss University to consider the topic as such. All information there: www.unil.ch/digitalera2011 Welcome to our international meeting on the 23-25th of August: «From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and Literacies» - Several institutions will support the firs Swiss THATCamp on the 11th-12th Novembre 2011 in Lausanne - A PhD student in Lausanne has got a one-year grant to go to Beirouth. She's learning Arabic and try to study the emergence of an hybrid digital scholarship about the Arabic and Greek New Testament manuscripts. Indeed, one can notice the emergence of a beyond Western boundaries scholarship on this topic, with islamic websites studying the Greek New Testament manuscripts, and diverse surprising new scholarly phenomenon. - The Swiss National Found begins to receive projects on Digital Humanities: their main difficulty is to found «experts». Every established scholar has now the same profile: to be involved in one field and to discover progressively the DH field... Kind greetings from Lausanne! Claire Clivaz Le 8 juin 2011 à 23:16, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 73. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:21:36 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital projects > > Dear colleagues, > > I am looking around for notable research projects that exemplify the > best of what's going on in the digital humanities these days. The > purpose of the collection I hope to assemble is to give colleagues here, > at Western Sydney, examples with which to think about what might be done > in the area we're calling "digital cultural research". Projects with a > particular focus on contemporary social situations and problems would be > most relevant as far as subject matter is concerned, but I do not want > to exclude any notable for the methods they use just because they are > concerned with, say, ancient Sumer. So, if you would, nominate what you > think is most worth looking at for whatever reason. And please do not > exclude projects of your own! > > All suggestions made here in response to this query will be published on > Humanist. > > Many thanks for your suggestions. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 13 20:08:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE25159E9B; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:08:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 78690159E88; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:08:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613200851.78690159E88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:08:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.91 historical reflection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 91. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:41:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.86 historical reflection In-Reply-To: <20110612200605.192CC158BD7@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, you wrote : > Many thanks for any leads. It's not entirely clear to me what you're after, but -- restricting myself to my own former territory of ancient studies -- it occurs to me that something like the following fairly recent stuff could just possibly be of some interest to you in this connection : Lin Foxhall, Hans-Joachim Gehrke, Nino Luraghi (ed.), Intentional history : spinning time in ancient Greece, 2010 Dušan Borić (ed.), Archaeology and memory, 2010 Mercourios Georgiadis, Chrysanthi Gallou (ed.), The past in the past : the significance of memory and tradition in the transmission of culture, 2009 and further perhaps : Jan Assmann, Das kulturelle Gedächtnis : Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen, 6. Aufl. 2007 Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone (ed.), Memory, history, nation : contested pasts, 2006 - Laval Hunsucker Antwerpen, België _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 13 20:09:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2374159EEB; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:09:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 777C5159ED1; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:09:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110613200939.777C5159ED1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:09:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.92 accessibility? 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. 25, No. 92. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:45:28 -0400 From: "WILLIAMS, GEORGE" Subject: Accessibility and digital humanities: A 5-minute survey My collaborators and I are currently gathering information about issues of disability, accessibility, and digital humanities resources. As part of that effort, we invite you to complete this survey. https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHBmZXRvekhBMDlxMjlzcy1NdXZlU2c6MQ#gid=0 We will use this information to inform our future project plans. As a survey participant you may remain anonymous, or you may share your name, affiliation, and contact information at the bottom of the form. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me at gwilliams@uscupstate.edu Thank you! Yours, --George ___________________________ George H. Williams Assistant Professor of English, USC Upstate Office: HPAC 213 Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00-4:00 and by appointment. ProfHacker editor and writer: http://ProfHacker.com Braille and braille literacy: http://BrailleSC.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 20:11:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C760E159F7E; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:11:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4EE1159F4F; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:10:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613201056.B4EE1159F4F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:10:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.93 Order of Australia for John Burrows X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 93. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:12:58 -0500 From: "Unsworth, John M" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.89 Order of Australia for John Burrows In-Reply-To: <20110613024034.B322D157905@woodward.joyent.us> What a wonderful honor, for a wonderful man. John On Jun 12, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 89. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:39:18 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: John Burrows, AM > > Professor John Burrows (Newcastle, NSW) has been named in the Queen's > Birthday Honours List as Member of the Order of Australia, "For service > to education in the fields of computational stylistics and English > literature as an academic and researcher." (See > http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/awards/medals/member_order_australia.cfm > for information about the award.) The timing couldn't be better: a > symposium in his honour, "Language Individuation", is taking place early > next month in Newcastle; see > http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/groups/cllc/2011-symposium.html > for more about it. > > Congratulations, John! > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 13 20:13:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A285159088; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:13:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71C0C159056; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:13:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613201306.71C0C159056@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:13:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.94 events: literacy and education X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 94. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:51:07 +0200 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: steven totosy re: conference announcement Abstracts are invited for presentation in the international conference "Literacy and Society, Culture, Media, & Education" held at Ghent University 9-11 February 2012 http://www.literacyconference2012.ugent.be . The conference is conceived to offer a forum of discussion about digitality in/of society, culture (incl. literature and the other arts), and education. In an age of digitality and mass media, perceptions and practices of culture, cultural production and consumption, and thus also education and pedagogy -- from elementary to higher education from epistemological questions, classroom practices, and application (including technology), as well as institutional structures -- are undergoing rapid changes and debate. The impact of digitality thus results in the necessity of and demand for new perspectives on literacy(ies). Participants in the conference explore theories, practices, and applications for the study of the interrelations of digitality and contemporary society, culture, and pedagogy. Papers are presented in the thematic sections of 1) Media and Society, 2) Media and Culture, and 3) Media and Education. Abstracts of 300 words with a 150-word bioprofile are invited by 30 September 2011 to Geert Vandermeersche at geert.vandermeersche@ugent.be . Presentations are 20 minutes in length followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Selected papers from the conference are planned to be published in the peer-reviewed and AHCI indexed humanities and social sciences quarterly CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb (ISSN 1481-4374). Limited funding is available to graduate student participants. steven totosy de zepetnek ph.d. professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ clcweb@purdue.edu series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/comparativeculturalstudies.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 15 21:56:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5696D15BEF9; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:56:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 324DC15BEE3; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:56:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110615215636.324DC15BEE3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:56:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.95 historical reflection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 95. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:14:02 +0200 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? In-Reply-To: <20110611214115.3B1671585FE@woodward.joyent.us> Den 11. juni. 2011 kl. 23.41 skrev Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 85. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:20:29 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: historical reflection? > > This is a very broad, perhaps foolishly unanswerable question, perhaps > not. It is this: what triggers historical reflection? When do we pause > in our anticipations of what is to come to look back on what has been? > Personally this is, I'm sure, an interesting thing to ponder, also > neurologically, as a question of long-term memory. But what about the > accumulation of institutional, professional, disciplinary memory? > When, > for example, did people in English studies or Anthropology first stop > worrying about establishing their discipline and start to wonder about > its history? This can, of course, overlap with the personal history of > the founders, e.g. in the case of English studies at Cambridge, with > E. > M. W. Tillyard's The Muse Unchained (1958), published 4 years before > his > death. But I suspect there's more than an old person's ruminatory > inclinations involved here. Specific cases of historical reflection > pioneered by mid-career academics would help. Are there other ways in > which this could be picked apart? Has anyone studied the phenomenon? A colleague of mine worked in a mechanical workshop in the 1970s. Two of the employees had been working there for a long time, one from the autumn of 1942, the other from the spring of 1943. Most of the talk between them was about the months before the second one started. There is a potential power in knowing the stories. This is seen in a wide variety of cultures, including modern academic ones. If not before, stories will naturally become important when new people are included in the environment. Maybe more so in egalitarian cultures where the elders have relatively less visible status? Is there any research based evidence of variation of the importance in knowing stories connected to other cultural factors? > > As far as I know the relationship between memory and historiography > is a > relatively recent thing, begun by Paul Fussell, in The Great War and > Modern Memory (1975). The historiographical problem of memory is bound > up with the debate over whether recent history can be called > history, or > more intelligently, how recent history is properly done. But, I'd > suppose, the inclination to think historically is common to both. I'd > like to know more about that. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Department of Digital 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 Wed Jun 15 21:58:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E93E15BF7B; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:58:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27D4715BF5C; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:58:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:58:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 96. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "John Ford" (20) Subject: Collaborative Journal Editing Software -- Recommendations? [2] From: "John G. Keating" (16) Subject: So, have you infringed any patents today? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:20:49 -0400 From: "John Ford" Subject: Collaborative Journal Editing Software -- Recommendations? I am working with a new group of fellow editors to launch a journal that focuses on business data analytics and related research. We are geographically dispersed and could use a good platform to support review of articles, sharing of information, and layout of the journal for printing/web publishing. Does anyone have experience with such a collaborative environment you could recommend for our use? We are new to this task, so no suggestion is too basic. All advice is welcome. Thanks! John -- John M. Ford, Ph.D. Senior Research Psychologist Office of Policy and Evaluation U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board john.ford@mspb.gov / johnf@us.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:20:28 +0100 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: So, have you infringed any patents today? Dear Humanist readers, So … have you infringed any patents today? Given the recent Apple and Nokia news (and especially Nokia's announcement that it has over 10,000 patent families in it's portfolio) on the conclusion of their patent disputes, I've been revisiting my notes on software patents, and web patents in particular. I'm particularly interested in whether new Digital Humanities tools and methods, necessary for the advancement of our field of study, actually infringe on software or web patents. For example, it is fairly standard practice in our community to encode "things" using XML and deliver the user the best possible engagement with those things using whatever device they chose to utilise at the moment of thing-engagement. Our generalised approach is to optimise content for the best engagement experience, and in my research group we focus on dynamic and adaptive software delivery appropriate to user activity. Oops, maybe we should think again about what we do! The US Supreme Court recently unanimously ruled against Microsoft Corp in its appeal of a record $290 million jury verdict for infringing Toronto-based i4i's patent. The patent in question related to a "Method and system for dynamically adapting the layout of a document to an output device" (US Patent: 7,251,778; Hill et al., July 31, 2007). Basically, it deals with a layout manager polling an output device to discover its capabilities, and then using CSS to control the display of HTML! This one is interesting as it is not unlike the dynamic selection of an XSLT document to control the generation of XML to control the display in some device or other, which I'm sure has been presented whenever the DH community get together! How any of us have thought about the possibility of generating patents from our work? Or, more importantly, when disseminating novel inventions, have any of us actually considered whether we may be infringing existing patents? I would be most interested in your thoughts, opinions, concerns on the issue. Best, John. Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND Email: john.keating@nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 4797 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 15 21:59:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705A715B01E; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:59:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2993615B007; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:59:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110615215950.2993615B007@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:59:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.97 MPhil at Trinity Dublin: reduced fees! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 97. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:09:12 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Reduced fees and Bursaries for the MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture The School of English, Trinity College Dublin, is delighted to announce that the Masters in Digital Humanities and Culture has qualified for Skills Conversion Funding sponsored by the Higher Education Authority under the National Development Plan. Under this scheme EU students fees are set at €2750 for both full and part time options for the 2011-12 academic year. Although the initial deadline has passed, we are still accepting applications from suitably qualified students. For more information about the MPhil please see: http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digitalhumanities.php I am also very pleased to report that three bursaries will be available for 2011-2012. In support of this new MPhil, the Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and the National Library of Ireland are this year offering a limited number of bursaries (valued at €3,333 each) to be set against fees. Successful EU applicants to the programme who accept the offer of a place will then be considered for the award of a bursary. Those chosen for the award will be required to confirm that they will do their internship module in the National Library. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 15 22:02:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7B115B155; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:02:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BBACE15B149; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:02:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110615220202.BBACE15B149@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:02:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.98 events: jobs at DH2011; Sharing Ancient Wisdoms 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. 25, No. 98. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (33) Subject: Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (seminar: Roueché & Tupman, KCL) [2] From: Stéfan_Sinclair (36) Subject: ACH Jobs Slam (and related activities) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:25:14 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (seminar: Roueché & Tupman, KCL) Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 Friday June 17th at 16:30 Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Charlotte Roueché & Charlotte Tupman (KCL) Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer ALL WELCOME SAWS uses digital technologies to analyse wisdom literatures in Greek and Arabic. Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages collections of wise sayings (gnomologia) were circulated as a response to the cost and inaccessibility of full texts. These moral and philosophical anthologies formed a crucial route by which ideas of reasonable behaviour were disseminated over the course of centuries. We are publishing gnomologia using TEI XML and developing a series of explanatory links in RDF between sections of collections, their source texts, and texts which drew upon them. This paper discusses challenges in publishing and linking these texts. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:25:29 +0100 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: ACH Jobs Slam (and related activities) Dear all, The ACH will again be organizing a Jobs Slam during its annual general meeting at the DH2011 Conference in Stanford. The meeting is Monday June 20th at noon in the SIEPR Building, Room 130. The Jobs Slam is a lively event and a chance for employers to get the word out about upcoming jobs as well as for prospective employees to introduce themselves to everyone present. If you have a current DH-related job posting or anticipate one in the next few months, please send me a message with the following information: * your name, affiliation and basic contact information * basic information about the job (title, affiliation, duration, etc.) * a link to other information, if available If you are on the job market or anticipate being so in the next few months, please send me a message with the following: * your name, affiliation and basic contact information * basic information about your qualifications & area of expertise Purveyors and seekers of jobs will each have up to 30 seconds to present. Please come join us for this exciting match-making event! Also a quick reminder about the ACH Mentoring programme: if you will be at Stanford and would like us to help connect you with a mentor, please send me a note. We will also be organizing our annual Mentoring Mixer – more details on that soon. If you're interested in any or all of the above, please email me (sgs at the domain mcmaster.ca) or send a tweet (@sgsinclair). We hope to hear from you! On behalf of the ACH Jobs & Mentoring Committee, Stéfan Sinclair & Matthew Jockers -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address:     TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia     Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 16 21:39:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3C215C02C; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:39:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AF2CD15C01C; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:39:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616213936.AF2CD15C01C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:39:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.99 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 99. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:20:11 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 patent infringements? In-Reply-To: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> John re: the ruling against Microsoft for patent infringement. It's obviously a really big question and - it seems - it may actually mean that the entire Web (as it now stands) infringes the patent referred to. If also seems that the future of the web, in terms of standards, will split between patented and proprietary, on the one extreme, and open and unprotected on the other. Maybe that's over-dramatic, maybe not. On another note, how can Universities teach Computer Science students (let alone DH students) the basic skills they need to develop for the Web if that allows them to use device polling to dynamically deliver content? I haven't read the judgement nor the patent (I probably will, I find it curious, I just haven't had the time) but if it specifically refers to web devices.... well, that doesn't limit if to browsers.... On the other hand, if it specifically only refers to HTML and CSS, does that exclude HTML5, XML, JavaScript polling etc? There's a rather large cat among the pigeons, I think... Ron > > Dear Humanist readers, > > So … have you infringed any patents today? > > Given the recent Apple and Nokia news (and especially Nokia's announcement that it has over 10,000 patent families in it's portfolio) on the conclusion of their patent disputes, I've been revisiting my notes on software patents, and web patents in particular. I'm particularly interested in whether new Digital Humanities tools and methods, necessary for the advancement of our field of study, actually infringe on software or web patents. > > For example, it is fairly standard practice in our community to encode "things" using XML and deliver the user the best possible engagement with those things using whatever device they chose to utilise at the moment of thing-engagement. Our generalised approach is to optimise content for the best engagement experience, and in my research group we focus on dynamic and adaptive software delivery appropriate to user activity. > > Oops, maybe we should think again about what we do! > > The US Supreme Court recently unanimously ruled against Microsoft Corp in its appeal of a record $290 million jury verdict for infringing Toronto-based i4i's patent. The patent in question related to a "Method and system for dynamically adapting the layout of a document to an output device" (US Patent: 7,251,778; Hill et al., July 31, 2007). Basically, it deals with a layout manager polling an output device to discover its capabilities, and then using CSS to control the display of HTML! This one is interesting as it is not unlike the dynamic selection of an XSLT document to control the generation of XML to control the display in some device or other, which I'm sure has been presented whenever the DH community get together! > > How any of us have thought about the possibility of generating patents from our work? Or, more importantly, when disseminating novel inventions, have any of us actually considered whether we may be infringing existing patents? I would be most interested in your thoughts, opinions, concerns on the issue. > > Best, John. > > Dr. John G. Keating > Associate Director > An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions > National University of Ireland, Maynooth > Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND > > Email: john.keating@nuim.ie > Tel: +353 1 708 3854 > FAX: +353 1 708 4797 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 16 21:40:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0454515C07F; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:40:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3965215C067; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:40:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616214024.3965215C067@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:40:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.100 journal editing software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 100. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kathie Gossett (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? [2] From: Stephen Miller (3) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? [3] From: "Acord, Sophia Krzys" (20) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:26:52 -0400 From: Kathie Gossett Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? In-Reply-To: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> John, Have you looked at Open Journal Systems (http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=3Dojs) by = the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University? It is used = primarily by journals to publish online content, but it has a really = robust back-end that can be used separately from the front-end web = publishing. It has messaging and version control built in. It's strength = is print-style publications--it doesn't work all that well for = multimedia editing, but that doesn't sound like it would be an issue for = your group. (I am currently working on an NEH funded project to build a = plugin for OJS that will improve it's multimedia editing capabilities.)=20= Kathie _______________________________ Kathie Gossett, PhD Asst. Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & New Media Co-Director, CeME Lab Department of English Old Dominion University (757) 683-5818 kgossett@odu.edu www.kathiegossett.com ceme.digitalodu.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:26:58 +0200 From: Stephen Miller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? In-Reply-To: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> Open Journal Systems http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs Stephen Miller --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:19:00 -0400 From: "Acord, Sophia Krzys" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? In-Reply-To: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John, I've been using Open Journal Systems (from the Public Knowledge Project) to create, manage, and publish a refereed journal for three years now, and have only good feedback to report: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs If you'd like to see how it works in implementation, our journal is Music in Arts in Action (MAiA): http://musicandartsinaction.net. I'd be happy to talk off-list as well if you have any questions. Regards, Sophia ----- Sophia Krzys Acord, Ph.D. Associate Director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law College of Arts and Sciences 200 Walker Hall P.O. Box 118030 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 tel (352)392-0796 fax (352)392-5378 skacord@ufl.edu http://www.humanities.ufl.edu/ **************************************************************** 2011 Grimes Conference - Haiti's Challenges: Rebuilding Lives & Nation in the Earthquake's Aftermath _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 16 21:43:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5541415C10C; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:43:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7CAA15C103; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:43:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616214300.C7CAA15C103@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:43:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.101 memory, historiography & the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 101. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:49:30 +0000 From: Teresa Swist-Swirski Subject: Memory, historiography and the digital humanities Dear all, I would like to share a number of links that hope to spark further discussion and thought regarding 'memory' and 'historiography'. The Memory Studies Journal: http://mss.sagepub.com/content/current Lucas Bietti is researching shared and distributed memories; his blog http://www.collectivememory.net/ has a myriad of interesting links, including: Research Centers and Projects * Body Memory. University of Heidelberg * Memory and The Brain. The Brain from Top to Bottom. Canadian Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction * Augmented Memories: Design, Memory and Interaction. Elise van den Hoven (Einhoven University of Technology) http://www.elisevandenhoven.com/ * Conversational remembering. Discourse & Rhetoric Group, Loughborough University * The Future is Here: Memory and the Machine. Baycrest Centre, Toronto * Danish Network of Cultural Memory Studies http://memory.au.dk/ * Digital Memories * Memory at War. Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine * Working Memory Forum. Lancaster University * Historical Justice and Memory Network. Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne * MRG Structure of Memory. Ruhr University Bochum * Sir Frederic Bartlett Archive. University of Cambridge * Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories * Grupo de Investigación en Psicología Social. Basque Country University http://www.ehu.es/pswparod/in_articulos.asp * Family Narratives Lab, Emory University * Memory, Social Cognition and Communication (Gerald Echterhoff's lab website) http://geraldechterhoff.com/ * Memory & memorialization: representing trauma and war (CNRS-NYU) * Memories for Life http://www.memoriesforlife.org/ * Centro di Studi Interdisciplinare su Memorie e Traumi Culturali * Narrative and Memory Research Group http://www2.hud.ac.uk/hhs/nme/ * Languages of Emotions: Emotion, violence and memory in coping with civil wars. A cultural comparison * Centre of Media, Memory and Community * Constructing Remembrance * Center on Autobiographical Memory Research * Sonderforschungsbereich 434 Erinnerungskulturen * Luce Program in Individual and Collective Memory * Socially Distributed Remembering. John Sutton (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science) http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/ * Center for the Study of History and Memory at Indiana Univeristy * Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory * Dynamics of cultural remembrance * Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research Regarding historiography, I came across a wonderful blog entitled 'Issues in Digital History': http://www.michaeljkramer.net/issuesindigitalhistory/blog/?page_id=2 Here is an excerpt: Digital Historiography Friday, May 6th, 2011 How might we digitize not only the past itself, but also conversations and debates about the past? As I watch my students develop their interpretive digital history projects on the Berkeley Folk Festival and the American folk music revival of the postwar decades, I am increasingly struck by the question of how the digital might present historiographical material. Which is to say, how might we best present existing arguments, interpretations, evidence bases, debates, and schools of thought in online form. In the traditional analytic essay, there is an age-old and very effective structure for offering a summary of the historical conversation up to date, but the digital proposes intriguing new ways of dramatizing not only the past but also the study of the past, not only new evidence, but also the ongoing conversations about to which that evidence might be applied to produce new insight. How, the question becomes, might we productively digitize historiography as well as history? The blog has a range of links relating to digital history... · Links: Institutes, Centers, Consortia * Archives and Public History Digital, NYU http://aphdigital.org/ * Digital History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln * HASTAC, Humanities Arts Sciences Technology Advanced Collaboratory http://www.hastac.org * Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California http://iml.usc.edu/ * Kansas University Center for Digital Scholarship * Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland http://mith.umd.edu/ * Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University http://chnm.gmu.edu/ * Scholars' Lab, University of Virginia Library * Spatial History Project, Stanford University * Virginia Center for Digital History * Virginia Tech Digital History Reader I would be interested in hearing from you about any other digital humanities research projects which connect with the themes of memory and historiography. Regards, Teresa Swirski Research Assistant, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney Email: T.Swist-Swirski@uws.edu.au, Phone: (02) 9685 9668 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 16 21:44:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6782C15C154; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B350715C140; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616214403.B350715C140@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.102 new on WWW: Institutional Repository Bibliography 4 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 102. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:17:06 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 4 Version four of the Institutional Repository Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 500 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories (see the scope note for details). All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html The bibliography has the following sections (all sections have been updated except "3 Multiple-Institution Repositories"): 1 General 2 Country and Regional Surveys 3 Multiple-Institution Repositories 4 Specific Institutional Repositories 5 Digital Preservation 6 Library Issues 7 Metadata 8 Institutional Open Access Mandates and Policies 9 R&D Projects 10 Research Studies 11 Software 12 Electronic Theses and Dissertations Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/irb_en_4.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ A Look Back at 22 Years as an Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/22/22years.htm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 16 21:44:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34DE215C1A1; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7613115C192; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616214449.7613115C192@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.103 events: Alan Liu at DH2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 103. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:45:17 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: Alan Liu to speak at DH2011 In-Reply-To: References: centerNet is pleased to announce that Alan Liu, Chair and Professor of English at University of Santa Barbara, known for Voice of the Shuttle, The Laws of Cool, Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database, and now for his work on 4Humanities, will be the centerNet luncheon speaker at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference on Wed, June 22nd. His presentation is "4Humanities: The Digital Humanities Community & Humanities Advocacy." More information about Liu is available at http:// liu.english.ucsb.edu. Details about the location and schedule for the lunch meeting are posted on the Digital Humanities 2013 web site. We hope that you can join us. Thanks, Katherine Walter ********************* Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Professor and Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 kwalter1@unl.edu (402) 472-3939 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 17 20:45:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FE015D407; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:45:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 953BA15D3F4; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:45:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110617204556.953BA15D3F4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:45:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.104 journal editing software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 104. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:42:24 -0700 From: "O'Donnell, Dan" Subject: RE: Suspicious URL:[Humanist] 25.100 journal editing software I have to say that my experience with OJS is less good than some others here appear to have had. I find it a relatively heavy system with surprising lacuna in what I would have thought to be essential features. Unless the system I inherited is set up wrong, for example, its email handling capabilities seem odd. It logs out bound messages only. And at the crucial moment when you want to convert from contributors' word processor files to HTML or PDF or similar, you are left to your own devices: the instructions are to go convert them using your own software and then upload the result. It seems to me if I need a system like OJS, that would be a basic functionality. Finally a look at the code for the published HTML suggests an odd approach. It seems to drop the whole html file into its own html frame. Meaning you end up with the html root of your uploaded file appearing as a child of their html:body tag. At Digital medievalist we handle correspondence and article management using a mediawiki install and word - xml - html using oxgarage and xslt. I can't say OJS adds much to that system. But it does seem to remove flexibility. But as I say, maybe our instance is set up wrongly or something. Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Professor of English University of Lethbridge Sent from my Android phone using big thumbs on small keys. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 17 20:46:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6F815D448; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:46:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7C0115D437; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:46:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110617204632.C7C0115D437@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:46:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements 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. 25, No. 105. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:23:12 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.99 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110616213936.AF2CD15C01C@woodward.joyent.us> At Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:20:11 +0100, Ron Healy wrote: > > On another note, how can Universities teach Computer Science > students (let alone DH students) the basic skills they need to > develop for the Web if that allows them to use device polling to > dynamically deliver content? So if we could find at least one textbook which describes implementing some kind of content negotiation mechanism based on the User-Agent header in an HTTP request, or that describes selecting a CSS stylesheet based on this header or some other test of client device type (such as using JavaScript to test which non-standard or incorrect DOM features the client provides), and this book was published before the patent, would that not render the patent void on the grounds that prior art existed? Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 17 20:47:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE6415D497; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9F06B15D487; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110617204710.9F06B15D487@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.106 job at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 106. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:01:31 +0100 From: "Hedges, Mark" Subject: Research Associate vacancy at King's College London, Centre fore-Research Research Associate at King's College London, Centre for e-Research The Centre for e-Research is seeking a Research Associate with strong technical and software development skills to work on e-research projects at the Centre. These projects may result in case studies, proofs of concept and pilots as well as in software for operational service, so the post offers an exciting opportunity to contribute both to the development of the digital and research infrastructure at King's and its collaborators, and to more exploratory development of innovative ideas solutions using cutting edge approaches. The post-holder will be expected to publish the results of research undertaken in relevant journals. Some current and past projects may be found at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/projects/. Approximately 75% of the post-holder's work (on average over the 2 years of the appointment) will be dedicated to the SAWS (Sharing Ancient Wisdoms) project, an EU-funded international collaboration that is exploring ways of exploiting the digital environment for creating, publishing and interacting with selected digital collections of manuscripts and texts, specifically Greek and Arabic “wisdom literature”. These anthologies of wise or useful sayings were widely circulated throughout antiquity and the middle ages, and they raise particular challenges at a technical and information modelling level due to the complex network of interrelationships among them and among their component parts. The SAWS project requires an imaginative research associate capable of researching, devising and developing innovative methodologies and tools for creating these complex resources, for expressing relationships between them, and for publishing, visualising and exploring them. The remaining 25% will be spent on other projects at the Centre, depending on ongoing requirements and the interests of the appointee. The candidate will preferably have an education in information science or computer science, or a humanities degree with a strong technical component. Due to the exploratory nature of the work, the role will require problem-solving ability and a high degree of initiative, as well as flexibility and a keenness to learn. Knowledge of Java, web development technologies (e.g. XML, Django, Ajax) and web service technologies is essential. Experience of linked data/semantic web technologies (e.g. RDF, OWL), and of other programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby), would be an advantage. This is a full-time position, initially for a period of 24 months. Salary for the position will be at an appropriate point of Grade 6, currently £33,193 to £39,185 per annum (inclusive of a £2,323 London allowance). Benefits include a contributory final salary pension scheme, subsidised gym membership and 27 days of annual leave, 4 college closure days, plus public holidays. For more details and an application pack please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=10378. Alternatively, please email strand-recruitment@kcl.ac.uk. All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number G6/QLJ/408/11-JT. For an informal discussion of the post please contact Mark Hedges on mark.hedges@kcl.ac.uk, or 020 7848 1970. The closing date is: 12 July 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 Jun 17 20:47:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D644815D4D6; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B205415D4C1; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110617204746.B205415D4C1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.107 nominations for Busa Prize X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 107. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:51:59 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Busa Prize--Nominations The Roberto Busa Award is a joint award of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). It is given every three years to honor outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa himself in 1998. The 2001 prize was awarded to John Burrows, 2004 to Susan Hockey, 2007 to Wilhelm Ott, and 2010 to Joe Raben. The next Busa Award will be given at the DH conference in 2013. The Award Committee now invites nominations. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ALLC or ACH. Nominators should give some account of the nominee’s work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominee’s work is desirable. Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. The recipient of the award receives 1000 GBP and is expected to give a keynote or plenary lecture (on a topic of their choice) at the annual Digital Humanities conference. ADHO will host the recipient as a guest of honor for the conference at which the Prize is awarded and the lecture given—this means that all travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of the Prize recipient will be paid by the Association. Nominations should be emailed to Matthew L. Jockers (Chair of the 2013 Busa Award Committee) mjockers@stanford.edu no later than September 1, 2011. The winner of the Award will be announced at the 2012 meeting and awarded at the 2013 meeting. More information about the award can be found on the ADHO web site: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/awards/BusaPrize -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 18 21:46:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A9215EFEE; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:46:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C496D15EFDF; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:46:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110618214639.C496D15EFDF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:46:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.108 journal editing software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 108. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:12:06 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.104 journal editing software In-Reply-To: <20110617204556.953BA15D3F4@woodward.joyent.us> On 11-06-17 01:45 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:42:24 -0700 From: "O'Donnell, > Dan" Subject: RE: Suspicious URL:[Humanist] > 25.100 journal editing software > > > I have to say that my experience with OJS is less good than some > others here appear to have had. OJS is good at some things, and apparently not really interested in others. In my personal opinion, it has suffered greatly from its frankly admirable but definitely frustrating determination to support old platforms (MySQL 4 and suffers PHP 4). This arises out of a desire not to abandon the large user-base it has acquired in third world countries and other contexts in which new hardware is hard to come by. But it does limit the ability of the platform to advance and innovate. The OJS folks have also steered clear of any serious attempt to create a publishing workflow of the kind we might wish to see (TEI to XHTML, TEI to XSL:FO to PDF, etc,). Having written a couple of those systems over the years, I can attest to the virtual impossibility of creating a generic set of stylesheets that will work for anything but a very specialized, known subset of e.g. TEI. You just can't create something that could handle the range of stuff that's likely to be uploaded -- DocBook, NLM 2.3, NLM 3.0, TEI in all its possible flavours for born-digital documents, DHQ, etc., and that's just the XML -- so they just leave it up to you to create the PDFs or whatever. However, I do agree that the way HTML files are presented (in frames, in an HTML structure which is wildly invalid) leaves a lot to be desired. But what OJS does take on, it seems to do well -- I think the article review handling is pretty good, for example. Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 18 21:48:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1E115E030; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:48:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 49A8115E028; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:48:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110618214806.49A8115E028@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:48:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.109 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 109. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ron Healy (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (24) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:29:39 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110617204632.C7C0115D437@woodward.joyent.us> Richard I would presume you would be correct that a textbook that suggests a method of dynamically selecting and delivering HTML / CSS combinations based on polling a device would render the patent void. However, I would have thought that a patent would not have been issued if such a thing was common enough 'prior art' to appear in a textbook. Of course, I could be wrong. Often am ;-) Ron > Ron Healy wrote: >> >> On another note, how can Universities teach Computer Science >> students (let alone DH students) the basic skills they need to >> develop for the Web if that allows them to use device polling to >> dynamically deliver content? > > So if we could find at least one textbook which describes implementing > some kind of content negotiation mechanism based on the User-Agent > header in an HTTP request, or that describes selecting a CSS > stylesheet based on this header or some other test of client device > type (such as using JavaScript to test which non-standard or incorrect > DOM features the client provides), and this book was published before > the patent, would that not render the patent void on the grounds that > prior art existed? > > Best, > Richard --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:28:59 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110617204632.C7C0115D437@woodward.joyent.us> According to wikipatents, US Patent: 7,251,778, as quoted in the original posting on this thread as being "the patent in question", is in fact owned by Microsoft Corporation (http://www.wikipatents.com/US-Patent-7251778/method-and-system-for-dynamically-adapting-the-layout-of-a-document-to) not i4i. According to i4i the patent behind the case against Microsoft was actually US Patent 5,787,449 (http://www.i4ilp.com/), from 1998, which describes, alarmingly, a method for doing standoff markup and selecting from a menu of available formats, and editing those formats separately from the text. I admit to being confused, and have no idea why the '778 patent, which patents the operations you describe below, is associated with the case, if at all. If anyone can enlighten us, I would appreciate it. Standoff markup is a technique widely used in corpus linguistics and would appear also to be covered by i4i's patent. It is also a technique published by corpus linguists from at least 1995, as mentioned by McKelvie, Brew and Thompson in CHum 31, 1998, p.372 when they refer to the MULTEXT system. Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 21:49:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4518E15E092; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:49:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D88A15E084; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:49:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110618214902.0D88A15E084@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.110 new publication: Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42.4 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 110. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:27:07 +0100 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, 4 July2011 Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 42, Number 4, July 2011 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/u330r0h17p64/. This issue contains: Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses Lynne Withey, Steve Cohn, Ellen Faran, et al. Within the scholarly communications ecosystem, scholarly publishers are a keystone species. University presses—as well as academic societies, research institutions, and other scholarly publishers—strive to fulfil our mission of ‘making public the fruits of scholarly research’ as effectively as possible within that ecosystem. While that mission has remained constant, in recent years the landscape in which we carry out this mission has altered dramatically. The expertise residing within university presses can help the scholarly enterprise prosper in both influence and impact as it moves ever more fully digital. However, the simple product-sales models of the twentieth century, devised when information was scarce and expensive, are clearly inappropriate for the twenty-first-century scholarly ecosystem. This report (a) identifies elements of the current scholarly publishing systems that are worth protecting and retaining throughout this and future periods of transition; (b) explores business models of existing projects that hold promise; (c) outlines the characteristics of effective business models; (d) addresses the challenges of the transitional period we are entering; and (e) arrives at recommendations that might allow us to sustain high-quality scholarship at a time when the fundamental expectations of publishing are changing. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/j530v15n96q53057/?p=babbe5d834154f68b7b67cb4fe49365c&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.4.397 Manuscript Makeovers Robert Brown This study is a rhetorical analysis of revisions made to the introductions of dissertations successfully transformed into monographs. The author compares parallel passages taken from six dissertation–book pairs representing a cross-section of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. He interprets changes from dissertation to book with reference to the body of literature written for aspiring book authors by experienced scholarly editors. The author's objective is to put their editorial advice on an empirical footing by illustrating it with these texts ‘grown in the wild.’ His hope is that junior scholars will find the analysis instructive when they turn a revisionary eye on their own dissertations and that scholarly editors will find it useful when they prepare publishing workshops for junior faculty and graduate students. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/hv32478706634nu7/?p=babbe5d834154f68b7b67cb4fe49365c&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.4.442 On the Global Impact of Selected Social-Policy Publishers in More Than 100 Countries Arno Tausch This article evaluates the international performance of twenty-one major international social-science book publishers according to nineteen quality criteria. The companies chosen publish almost 19 per cent of titles worldwide on such critical political economy issues as dependency theory and world systems theory, as well as 7 per cent of all titles on globalization, the world system, or the European Union, and all have been important outlets in the past, especially for writers outside North America. The author applies parametric and non-parametric social-science indicator construction in the tradition of Almas Heshmati to arrive at a performance ranking for the twenty-one companies based on the nineteen criteria. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/h0540050x445w465/?p=babbe5d834154f68b7b67cb4fe49365c&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.4.476 Subject and Historiographic Characteristics of Library History Anne L. Buchanan, Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel Library history per se has evolved from a highly specialized scholarly endeavour to a field open to a wider range of subjects and orientations. This discussion examines the library history bibliographies officially compiled for the American Library Association's Library History Round Table, the official and professional association for the history of libraries. The bibliographies for the years 2005 to 2009 were examined for type of publication and subject orientation and examined visually for content. The recent state of library history is discussed in terms of disciplinary orientations and methodological perspectives as well as to ascertain various intellectual vectors that library history is exhibiting. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:42:29 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Busa Prize--Nominations Correction In adapting some boiler-plate language from the last call for nominations, I failed to acknowledge that the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI) has joined the Alliance of DH Organizations and is thus a further sponsor of the Busa Award. My apologies for the oversight. -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 19 19:57:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67E415E506; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:57:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 200DE15E4F6; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:57:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110619195717.200DE15E4F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:57:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.112 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 112. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:13:27 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.109 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110618214806.49A8115E028@woodward.joyent.us> > From: Ron Healy >However, I >would have thought that a patent would not have been issued if > such a thing was common enough 'prior art' to appear in a textbook. That's what I too would have thought. But in the light of Bedrock's East Texas win against Google, I think it may be idealistic! That said, I wonder how sustainable the practice of patenting software processes will actually prove to be. Hopefully, not very. Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 19 20:00:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09C115E5B2; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6554715E5A4; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110619200020.6554715E5A4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.113 events: language and speech X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 113. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:21:01 +0100 From: Carlos Martin-Vide Subject: SSLST 2011: 2nd announcement 2011 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES (SSLST 2011) (formerly International PhD School in Language and Speech Technologies) Tarragona, Spain, August 29 – September 2, 2011 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/ ****************************************** AIM: SSLST 2011 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures on language and speech technologies at different levels. The students choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate their career in research. 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Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 20:31:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854BF15FFDA; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:31:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C4FE15FFCD; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:31:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110620203148.4C4FE15FFCD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:31:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.114 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 114. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:51 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.112 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110619195717.200DE15E4F6@woodward.joyent.us> >> From: Ron Healy >> I would have thought that a patent would not have been issued if >> such a thing was common enough 'prior art' to appear in a textbook. > > I wonder how sustainable the practice of patenting software processes will actually prove to be. Hopefully, not very. > > Dr Daniel Allington > Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics > Centre for Language and Communication I've been thinking a lot about the issues raised by this whole mess. I really think there's a very big problem on the (digital) horizon unless there's a sort of 'truce' on the subject of patents that have been routinely submitted over the last 2 decades 'just in case' and, in the future, a lot more care taken to ensure that any patent applications submitted are actually for new things that don't automatically include or preclude things not yet invented, defined, produced. I'm not sure if that's even possible - limited patents - but if it doesn't get sorted, I would hazard a guess that we're going to hear about more and more cases where someone has come up with a new technique or developed a new platform or technology based on some patent that was issued for something that is infringed even though the original patent couldn't possibly have foreseen the 'new' use. Not sure if that makes sense but there are so many hundreds of thousands of patents filed that it's almost a certainty that much of what we do, and will do in the future, will infringe on *something*. The EU is looking at the issue of 'patent thickets' because they stifle innovation. Hopefully there's a solution to this because that last thing anyone needs in the 'developed' world is a reluctance to innovate... Regards Ron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 20:34:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CE115F0A7; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:34:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DCCA215F089; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:34:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110620203439.DCCA215F089@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:34:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.115 postdoc at Oxford for sociolinguist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 115. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:22:05 +0100 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: 2 year postdoc for sociolinguist (KTP position) Apologies for cross posting Sociolinguist (KTP Associate) SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Oxford Grade 7: Salary £29,099 p.a. As a result of funding from the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Directorate and Aurix Limited an exciting position for a Sociolinguist (KTP Associate) is now available. The successful candidate will be based at Aurix Limited, Malvern, Worcestershire for the two-year project, which will involve providing the company with knowledge and expertise in aspects of sociolinguistics and conversational analysis, in order to generate new audio mining products and patents. Candidates will need a PhD in linguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics or sociology (conversation analysis) and previous experience of undertaking research on linguistic data. Candidates will need the ability to manage large data sets and have good time-management skills. This is a full-time position which is fixed-term for two years. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. To apply for this role and for further details, including a job description and person specification, please click on the link below: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=100421 Only applications received before midday on Monday 18 July 2011 can be considered. You will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. Interviews will be in Malvern, probably on 25 July. -- David Zeitlyn, Professor of Social Anthropology (research) Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/academic/professor-david-zeitlyn/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/ http://about.me/david.zeitlyn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 20:35:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9BF15F113; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:35:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB16B15F105; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:35:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110620203537.DB16B15F105@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:35:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 116. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:03:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book I have in my hands a newly published book that so far has rewarded the reading: Bartscherer, Thomas and Roderick Coover, eds. 2011. Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Below is the table of contents. Read it tonight! Yours, WM ----- I. Research, Sense, Structure How Computation Changes Research Ian Foster We Digital Sensemakers Mark Stefik Scholarsource: A Digital Infrastructure for the Humanities. Paolo D’Iorio and Michele Barbera Responses “We Will Really Know” Alan Liu On Scholarship Graham White II. Ontology, Semantic Web, Creativity Switching Partners: Dancing with the Ontological Engineers. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith The Semantic Web from the Bottom Up. James Hendler Logical Induction, Machine Learning, and Human Creativity. Jean-Gabriel Ganascia Responses Relating Modes of Thought William J. Clancey Intelligence and the Limits of Codes Albert Borgmann III. Panorama, Interactivity, Embodiment The Digital Panorama and Cinemascapes. Roderick Coover Re-place: The Embodiment of Virtual Space. 218 Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine, and Roderick Coover Response Rewiring Culture, the Brain, and Digital Media Vibeke Sorensen IV. Re/presentations: Language and Facsimile Electronic Linguistics. George Quasha in dialogue with Gary Hill The Migration of the Aura, or How to Explore the Original through Its Facsimiles. Bruno Latour and Adam Lowe Responses The Truth in Versions Charles Bernstein Pamphlets, Paintings, and Programs: Faithful Reproduction and Untidy Generativity in the Physical and Digital Domains Judith Donath Epilogue: Enquire within upon everything Richard Powers -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 21 20:48:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D079160A1C; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:48:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8FAB81609BB; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:48:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621204827.8FAB81609BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:48:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 117. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:25:37 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.114 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110620203148.4C4FE15FFCD@woodward.joyent.us> I broadly agree with what you are saying, that the current situation with software patents in the US at least is a mess. However, I'm not sure I entirely agree with the idea that they 'stifle innovation'. One could argue that in fact they promote it. The problem is that angel investors will be reluctant to commit investment funds to new software startups unless they can guarantee that the innovations of their supported company will be their intellectual property. So this works at the very start of commercial innovation, and to take it away would simply cause the stream of innovative commercial ideas to dry up. I don't know what the solution is, but you need to think about it from both sides. Hopefully, the commercial guys will leave us free software developers alone, unless by our innovation we start to take away their business. Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 6:31 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 21 20:50:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DA0160BC5; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:50:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 87AAD160B15; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:50:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621205002.87AAD160B15@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:50:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.118 ACH-ALLC/ALLC-ACH abstracts? symbols for measuring? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 118. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (27) Subject: symbols for measure units in late latin texts [2] From: "Unsworth, John M" (6) Subject: ACH/ALLC or ALLC/ACH abstracts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:04:47 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: symbols for measure units in late latin texts dear colleagues, i would like to get your advice about a matter regarding characters, glyphs, fonts and Unicode. in printed late-latin texts symbols do appear representing measurement units (you can see a list of them at http://www.tulliana.eu/documenti/ measure%20units.doc). the problem is that - as far as i can know - no single font contains all of those characters. some of them are found in Cardo by d. perry, some other in Alphabetum by j.j. marcos, some other elsewhere, and some of them do not appear in any font i know. so some questions arise about: 1) how to represent those 'signs' in a digital text; 2) what to do in order to get the glyph corresponding to the missing characters; 3) what to do in order to have 1 single font containing all those symbols (creating an ad-hoc font? expanding one of the existing fonts?) 4) what to do in order to have Unicode-compliant character codes for the now non-existent characters the solution of getting the missing characters from many different fonts is not viable as it requires that the scholar interested to those texts loads many different fonts in order use 1 or 2 or 5 characters from each of them. with many thanks to everyone ! maurizio ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:32:00 -0500 From: "Unsworth, John M" Subject: ACH/ALLC or ALLC/ACH abstracts Hello, I'm working with a small group that's putting conference abstracts for the Digital Humanities conferences online, in searchable form. You can see the current state of that at: http://209.20.69.206:8080/dh-abstracts/search If anyone out there has ACH/ALLC conference abstracts from 1989 (the first joint conference of ACH and ALLC, held at Toronto) through 1995 (Santa Barbara) please let me know. The other conferences in that period were held in Arizona, Oxford, Washington DC, and Paris. I'm hoping for machine-readable text, but I will settle for print, and if you send me print I will send it back unharmed. Thanks, 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 Tue Jun 21 20:52:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038E4160EA4; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:52:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DB35160E93; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:51:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621205159.0DB35160E93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:51:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.119 cfp: modern linguistics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 119. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:41:24 +0100 From: "Open J. Mod. Liguistics" Subject: cfp: Open Journal of Modern Linguistics Dear Colleagues, As you may already know that Open Journal of Modern Linguistics has now been formally launched and already received a lot of attention worldwide. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics is a peer-reviewed and open access journal, publishing original research papers, reports, reviews and commentaries in all areas of modern linguistics online as well as in print . Main Scope * Applied linguistics * Clinical linguistics * Developmental linguistics * Historical linguistics * Linguistic typology * Psycholinguistics * Stylistics * Biolinguistics * Computational linguistics * Evolutionary linguistics * Language geography * Neurolinguistics * Sociolinguistics You are cordially invited to submit your papers to this international journal. We aim to ensure the turnaround time to be less than six months. With your support, we believe that it will soon become an international leading journal. For more information, please visit the journal homepage: www.scirp.org/Journal/ojml . Yours sincerely, Tian Huang Editorial Office of OJML Email: ojml@scirp.org Open Journal of Modern Linguistics www.scirp.org/Journal/ojml _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 21 20:53:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20586160F17; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:53:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D311160F00; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:52:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621205258.0D311160F00@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:52:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.120 report from the ACH at DH2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 120. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:53:46 -0700 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: Report from ACH Annual General Meeting at Stanford Dear Colleagues, This is intended as a brief report on the ACH Annual General Meeting that took place during the Digital Humanities 2011 conference at Stanford. The first notable aspect of the meeting was the astounding attendance: there were over 80 people present. In the past years the meeting has shifted from reporting the deliberations of the Executive Council (not always the most compelling content) to a summary of key points and a more open format of discussion and community-focused initiatives. We began the meeting by recognizing the passing away of our friend and colleague Chuck Bush, who was the ACH Treasurer and served on its executive council for more than 20 years (see http://ach.org/charles-douglas-bush-1948-2011). New members of the Executive Council were welcomed and outgoing members were thanked. A warm and sustained ovation was reserved for Julia Flanders, outgoing President extraordinaire. Next we launched into the annual ACH Jobs Slam, a chance for prospective employees to introduce themselves (Ed Finn and Molly Des Jardin) as well as an encouraging range of job opportunities: * Mellon Postdocs at Emory: http://bit.ly/disc-postdoc * Research Professorship at BYU: http://bit.ly/jWu6EI * Lecturer in Digital Information Studies at UCL: http://bit.ly/hFCaRH * Assoc. Library Director of Digital Initiatives at McGill: http://bit.ly/kcD1gz * Digital Humanities Academic Administrator at UCLA: http://bit.ly/iCQI4g * Web Developers at NYPL: http://bit.ly/mRGKA0 We also pointed to two very useful lists of jobs: http://www.arts-humanities.net/jobs and http://www.hastac.org/forum/23 Finally, we reminded everyone of the ongoing ACH mentoring programme http://ach.org/mentoring We encourage thesis supervisors who have students finishing and looking for DH-oriented jobs to contact the Mentoring committee. Following the Jobs Slam we covered some new and ongoing initiatives. In particular: * the ACH has a completely revamped website! http://ach.org/ * we invited everyone to express interest to get involved in ACH committees * we discussed the success of DHAnswers and invited colleagues to contribute http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Finally, we had two open discussion topics. The first was regarding a possible name change for ACH. The Executive Council recognizes that "Association of Computers and the Humanities" may not be as expressive of contemporary digital humanities scholarship and teaching as it might be. Some present pointed out the danger that the title may keep new people away. However, the overwhelming tenor of the discussion was that a change would present several logistical challenges and there was a certain attachment to the historical context that the ACH represents (much like the anachronistic sounding Association for Computing Machinery). Moreover, using the acronym ACH somewhat masks the details anyway. Second, we discussed possibilities for the ACH to partner with local events to provide more continuous and more regional support and presence for the ACH constituency. A whole range of suggestions were offered and the ACH Exec will try experimenting with some of them and report back about this next year. Thanks to all who were present and contributed! [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address:     TSH-328, Communication Studies & Multimedia     Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 21 20:56:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2B4160120; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:56:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6148E160109; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:56:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621205640.6148E160109@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:56:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.121 events: philosophy; libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 121. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (30) Subject: IACAP'11 - program available - registration closing soon [2] From: "Marlies Olensky" (80) Subject: TPDL 2011 - Programme online - Early Bird extended to July 11, 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:19:12 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: IACAP'11 - program available - registration closing soon Colleagues, On behalf of the organizing committee and IACAP (International Association for Computing and Philosophy), I'm pleased to announce that the schedule of conference events and presentations for IACAP'11 (the 25th anniversary conference of the Computing and Philosophy conferences) is now available on the conference website: http://www.iacap.org/conferences/iacap11/ Papers are arranged in 10 tracks, exploring the conference theme, "The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures?² through a wide range of perspectives, themes, and disciplines. Five keynote speakers complete the program: please see the website for titles, abstracts, and speaker bios. IACAP'11 will take place on the campus of Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, July 4-6, 2011. Deadline date for registrations is 26. June. Additional information regarding transportation, restaurants, etc. is also now available. Please pass along to potentially interested colleagues and students. We look forward to welcoming our speakers, presenters, and conference participants to Aarhus to celebrate 25 years of "the computational turn." Best regards, charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:27:06 +0200 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 - Programme online - Early Bird extended to July 11, 2011 International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. PROGRAMME ONLINE The conference programme of TPDL 2011 is now online and can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/ProgrammeOverview. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION The Early Bird Registration was extended to July 11, 2011. Registration fees Early / Normal --------------- Conference Full 500 Single day (Mon/Tue) 180 Single day (Wed) 90 Tutorials 130 Workshops Full day 170 Half day 85 Early / Student ---------------- Conference Full 350 Single day (Mon/Tue) 110 Single day (Wed) 55 Tutorials 100 Workshops Full day 140 Half day 70 Doctoral Consortium 55 All fees are in EUR. The late registration fees can be found on the website. In order to provide the highest possible flexibility for attending different workshops during TPDL, we offer the option to book half-days of the workshops. Please note that you need to book at least two half-days. Please register via http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationTPDL2011 Early Bird registration: until July 11, 2011 Late registration: until September 9, 2011 If you encounter any technical problems during your registration please contact: service@wiwex.net For all other enquiries please contact: info.tpdl2011@hu-berlin.de WORKSHOP 2 CANCELED ------------------- Please note the Workshop 2: A DC-SAM1 Workshop: Research and Best Practices in Linking Scientific Metadata was canceled. TUTORIAL 2 FULL DAY ------------------- The organisers of Tutorial 2 "Lifting the Fog: How distributed cloud-based collaboration can unlock regional cultural heritage to build a robust shared information space" have decided to make their tutorial full day instead of half day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 22 20:00:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7854E161CBC; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D1A2161CA9; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110622200023.7D1A2161CA9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.122 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 122. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ron Healy (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements [2] From: D.Allington (38) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:46:53 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110621204827.8FAB81609BB@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Dr Schmidt Regarding: "...I'm not sure I entirely agree with the idea that they 'stifle innovation'. One could argue that in fact they promote it. " I agree with that. I wasn't suggesting that Patents themselves stifle innovation. I'm aware that they help give investors something to hang on to. I'm currently working on something that shouldn't really be patented - possibly very easy to circumvent - but that we're being advised to submit a Patent for anyway, for exactly that reason. However, 'patent thickets' (huge collections of patents that are a nightmare to wade through) and patents that pre-emptively protect against future (undefined and unpredicted) developments, often for completely unrelated things, are definitely increasingly difficult to deal with. More interestingly, I'm concerned that Academic research that leads to publications for MSc / PhD (or whatever) could also be infringing on patents submitted some time ago in some other area for some other purpose. Imagine if we had to do patent searches before publishing a paper? In fact, before writing it? I just believe patents should be quite specific and a good deal more limited in scope. Regards Ron --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:59:34 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110621204827.8FAB81609BB@woodward.joyent.us> I agree that there's a need for caution before throwing regulations away. But it seems to me that the patent system is not being used to protect innovation in software. Instead, people are speculatively patenting ideas that seem like they might be useful (or, worse, are already being used), then waiting a few years to see whom they can sue for infringement. And while it might not be too bad if the 'commercial guys' just sued each other and left the free and open source communities alone, there's no mechanism to ensure that this will happen. Many big commercial companies already see FOSS developers as a threat. And given the lack of resources possessed by most FOSS developers, patents could be the ideal way for the 'commercial guys' to take them out. Consider the Bedrock vs Google case. Bedrock and Google are both commercial companies, but I believe that the infringing code is in the Linux kernel of the Android OS. I don't think that Android can be the only Linux distro to use the code - what will happen to the FOSS community if Bedrock (which holds the patent even though it is in no sense the inventor) goes on to sue every Linux distributor? In the short term, I think we'd better pray that Google crushes Bedrock on appeal. That's not a long term solution, though. Getting back to the problem with angel investors - yes, they may be reluctant to commit funds to startups that don't hold patents to their own innovations. But can the average startup afford to employ someone to go through every last bit of code it uses, checking whether it might be considered to infringe somebody else's patent? And won't the profitability of startups take a big hit if they have to pay royalties on ever increasing numbers of patents? (Most of whose holders will be big commercial companies.) And what if a situation arises where startups routinely get sued to a cinder by patent squatters like Bedrock - won't that lead to even greater reluctance on the part of investors? It seems to me that copyright already provides too much protection for intellectual property (and not only in the software industry). Why does the world need software patents too? Anyway, this is why I signed the Stop Software Patents European petition (http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/). But I think there must be a more effective campaigning tool than a petition. Perhaps that is also something to discuss. Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 22 20:02:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC363161D6D; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:02:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD8B8161D59; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:02:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110622200249.DD8B8161D59@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.123 new publications: alternative jobs; journal mining; African 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. 25, No. 123. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (17) Subject: announcing #Alt-Academy, an edited collection [2] From: AJMCSR Special Review (12) Subject: Call for Papers (2011 Special Review Announcement) [3] From: Laval Hunsucker (9) Subject: New report on journal article mining --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:45:21 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: announcing #Alt-Academy, an edited collection I'm very pleased to announce today's release of #Alt-Academy, an open-access collection of essays, dialogues, and personal narratives on the subject of alternative academic careers for humanities scholars: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/ Initial contributors include Willard McCarty, Julia Flanders, Anne Whisnant, Rafael Alvarado, Julie Meloni, Lisa Spiro, Doug Reside, Tanya Clement, Hugh Cayless, Tom Scheinfeldt, Amanda Gailey, Dot Porter, Joe Gilbert, Wayne Graham, Eric Johnson, Dorothea Salo, Sheila Brennan, Jeremy Boggs, Sharon Leon, Brian Croxall, Arno Bosse, Miranda Swanson, Joanne Berens, Amanda Watson, Patricia Hswe, Amanda French, Christa Williford, Suzanne Fischer, Patrick Murray-John, Vika Zafrin, Shana Kimball, and James Cummings. Gardner Campbell and Tim Powell will provide invited commentary in the coming weeks, and the project's general editor is Bethany Nowviskie. As a MediaCommons project, #Alt-Academy takes a grass-roots, bottom-up, publish-then-filter approach to community-building and networked scholarly communication around the theme of unconventional or alternative ("#alt-ac") careers. 24 essays and other contributions by 33 authors are currently available under a Creative Commons license. See our "Welcome" and "How It Works" pages to learn how you can comment, contribute, or volunteer to edit an #Alt-Academy cluster. * WHAT IS #ALT-AC? * #Alt-Academy was created by and for people with deep training and experience in the humanities, working or seeking employment — generally off the tenure track, but within the academic orbit — in universities and colleges, or allied knowledge and cultural heritage institutions such as museums, libraries, academic presses, historical societies, and governmental humanities organizations. The work of such institutions is enriched and enabled by capable "alternative academics." Although they are rarely conventionally-employed as faculty members, the people contributing to #Alt-Academy maintain a research (or R&D) and publication profiles and bring their methodological and theoretical training to bear every day on problem sets of great importance to higher education. For some, keeping their considerable talents within the academy can be more difficult than making a switch to private-sector careers. Class divisions among faculty and staff are profound, and the suspicion or (worse) condescension with which so-called “failed academics” are met can be disheartening. For all that, these authors love their work. Many on the #alt-ac track describe the satisfaction of making teams (and systems, and programs) work, of solving problems and making or enabling breakthroughs in research and scholarship in their disciplines, and of contributing to and experiencing the life of the mind in ways they did not imagine when they entered grad school. The #Alt-Academy site is for them, for their academic partners and institutional leaders, and for the next generation of hybrid humanities scholars — people who are building skills and experience in precisely those areas of the academy that are most in flux, and most in need of guidance and attention by sensitive, capable, imaginative, and well-informed scholar-practitioners. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ ● http://ach.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:20:46 +0000 From: AJMCSR Special Review Subject: Call for Papers (2011 Special Review Announcement) African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR http://www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR Dear Colleague, The African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research wishes to invite scientists and researchers in all areas of Mathematics and Computer Science to submit review articles for the 2011 December Special (ANNIVERSARY) Review Issue. The articles in the African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research December Special Review Issues continue to be our most accessed, downloaded and sought after papers. The reviews, commentaries and perspectives should be in the author's area of research or specialization. Kindly see the instruction for authors designed for submission guidelines (http://www.academicjournals.org/ajmcsr/Instruction.htm). Prospective authors should submit their review manuscripts to ajmcsrspecialreview@academicjournals.org on or before 15th October, 2011. We also welcome the submission of regular articles. Best regards, Associate Professor Kai-Long Hsiao Editor, African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research (AJMCSR) http://www.academicjournals.org/ajmcsr --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:38:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: New report on journal article mining In-Reply-To: <20110621205258.0D311160F00@woodward.joyent.us> The availability of this report was just announced on a library discussion list, and I thought that it would be of interest also to various persons here. It emphasizes that humanities is one of the "new areas" involved : http://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/PRCSmitJAMreport20June2011VersionofRecord.pdf   - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 22 20:05:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C67161E25; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:05:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B73BE161E13; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:05:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110622200503.B73BE161E13@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:05:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.124 events: culture; 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. 25, No. 124. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (31) Subject: CFP Deadline extended - CHArt Annual Conference 2011 - The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture [2] From: "Dunn, Stuart" (25) Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:35:02 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: CFP Deadline extended - CHArt Annual Conference 2011 - TheChallenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture With apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who might be interested. Please note the deadline extension to 1 July 2011. THE CHALLENGE OF UBIQUITY IN DIGITAL CULTURE Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) 27th Annual Conference, Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November 2011, London venue to be confirmed www.chart.ac.uk Utopian hopes for the ubiquity of digital and networked technologies leading to a more transparent and democratic society are being met by expressions of concern about their implications for art. Nicholas Bourriaud has observed that such technologies can bring about a 'collective desire to create new areas of conviviality and introduce new types of transaction with regard to the cultural object'. However, others perceive an imminent threat, characterised by such terms as a digital 'deluge' or 'oblivion’. CHArt is interested to examine critically both positive views and apocalyptic concerns about the implications of the widespread merger of telecommunications and computer technology in society for art, its history and practice. We are looking for papers that engage with issues including, but not limited to: The implications of the ubiquity of digital and network technologies for evaluating what constitutes an original work of art and the originality of its creator(s). What effects have these technologies had on valuing art in terms of its aesthetic quality? What impact have real-time technologies had for the creation, ownership and distribution of culture? What are the impacts of the widespread proliferation and use of such technologies on curatorial practice and the processes of selecting, preserving and enabling access to art? How have they affected both the content and methods of teaching the history and practice of art? Are other disciplines and areas of society affected by art mediated by real-time technologies? How? We are particularly interested in work that engages with such questions and extends beyond simply understanding digital and network technologies as transparent conduits of data and information. CHArt encourages proposals addressing complex artefacts that, in Friedrich Kittler's words, 'determine our situation'. Contributions are welcomed from all sections of the CHArt community on the intersection between art and art history and semantic web developments; cloud computing; data mining; screen scraping; crowd sourcing; mashups; and freely available sites that enable data and images to be stored and accessed. CHArt seeks papers from art historians, artists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, curators, conservators, computing scientists, scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists, educationalists and philosophers. Postgraduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal. CHArt is able to offer assistance with the conference fees for up to three student delegates. Priority will be given to students whose papers are accepted for presentation. An application form and proof of university enrolment will be required. For further details about the Helene Roberts Bursary please email anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk. Submissions should be in the form of a 300-400 word synopsis of the proposed paper with brief biographical information (no more than 200 words) of presenter/s, and should be emailed to chart@kcl.ac.uk by Friday July 1st 2011. Notification of paper acceptance: 1 September 2011 Submission of papers: 17 October 2011 ---- Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk http://bentkowska.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:49:38 +0100 From: "Dunn, Stuart" Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday June 24th at 16:30 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Alessandro Vatri (Oxford) HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study ALL WELCOME HdtDep is a treebank and search engine based on the first book of Herodotus’ Histories. The structure of the sentences has been parsed applying a modified version of Mel’cuk’s dependency syntax, and has been encoded in an XML database. The search engine allows searching for precise dependency patterns involving specific grammatical categories or lexemes in exact sequences, and can easily be programmed through a user friendly graphic interface. This tool is especially designed for classicists and linguists investigating Greek word order—hence the choice of Herodotus’ prose as linguistic material—but can also be useful for teachers and language learners. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html ----------------------- 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 Thu Jun 23 20:52:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 979CD162E92; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:52:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8EEF1162E82; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:52:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110623205200.8EEF1162E82@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:52:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 125. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes In-Reply-To: <20110620203537.DB16B15F105@woodward.joyent.us> Not available electronically: not interested. --- On Mon, 6/20/11, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: Humanist Discussion Group > Subject: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Date: Monday, June 20, 2011, 1:35 PM >           >        Humanist Discussion Group, > Vol. 25, No. 116. >          Centre for Computing > in the Humanities, King's College London >                 [...] > > I have in my hands a newly published book that so far has > rewarded the > reading: > > Bartscherer, Thomas and Roderick Coover, eds. 2011. > Switching Codes: > Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and > the Arts. > Chicago: University of Chicago Press. > > Below is the table of contents. > > Read it tonight! > > Yours, > WM [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 23 20:58:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50484162026; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF60F16201E; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110623205832.CF60F16201E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.126 MA/PhD awards at Swansea; job at Illinois X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 126. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Berry (34) Subject: Swansea AHRC funded MA/PhD awards [2] From: "Green, Harriett E" (23) Subject: Job opening at University of Illinois: Digital HumanitiesSpecialist - Extended --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:36:44 +0200 From: David Berry Subject: Swansea AHRC funded MA/PhD awards In-Reply-To: <20110622200503.B73BE161E13@woodward.joyent.us> Swansea University's College of Arts and Humanities (COAH) is pleased to announce two AHRC awards under a new Block Grant Partnership: - One fully-funded MA award in Film and Television Studies (2011 96 2012) - One fully-funded Doctoral Award in Film and Television Studies (2012 96 2013) We strongly welcome applicants interested in applying innovative digital approaches to the study of Film and Television from either a digital humanities or digital media background. For example, understanding film/television as software, the digital remediation of traditional media forms, film/television in the infinite archive, the digital 'folding' of film, new digital narratives and storylines, software takes command/software studies approaches to film, and the 'softwarization' of culture, particularly in relation to film and television. The closing date for applications is 15 July 2011. For information about the awards, please see: http://www.swan.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/newscentre/latestnewsandevents/ahr cstudentshipawards.php For application forms and more information contact: COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@swansea.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)1792 295926. --- Dr. David M. Berry Department of Political and Cultural Studies Room JC015 James Callaghan Building Swansea University Singleton Campus Swansea SA2 8PP Tel: 01792 602633 http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:01:46 -0500 From: "Green, Harriett E" Subject: Job opening at University of Illinois: Digital HumanitiesSpecialist - Extended In-Reply-To: <20110622200503.B73BE161E13@woodward.joyent.us> Digital Humanities Specialist 100% Academic Professional Position University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Library Duties and Responsibilities: The University of Illinois Library conducts a variety of activities in support of digital humanities scholarship, including creation, delivery, curation and preservation of a wide variety of types of digital assets and tools. Reporting to the Technical Architect for Repositories and Scholarly Communication, the Digital Humanities Specialist will assist with the planning, implementation and ongoing production of these digital collections and scholarly initiatives, with particular emphasis on project design, digitization workflows, and content and delivery systems. The successful candidate will work across a number of humanities and Special Collections units and will be part of a team of IT personnel that develops and delivers repository and scholarly communication services. Examples of ongoing projects include a robust newspaper digitization program and a "triple-decker" nineteenth-century American novel digital conversion project, utilizing content management systems such as Olive, Archon, CONTENTdm, and locally developed databases. In addition, the successful candidate will contribute to the work of the Scholarly Commons in helping to articulate the relationship between new technologies and humanities scholarship to the community of humanists; in advising teaching faculty on the creation of digital objects and providing technical support for use of analytical tools; and in serving as an agent between content providers and the Library's repository. This position is expected to evolve in tandem with the Library's strategic goals and to experiment with new ways of supporting and enhancing the teaching, research and service missions of the University. The scope and responsibilities will shift in accordance with priorities established by the AUL for Information Technology Planning and Policy in consultation with IT staff and digital humanities stakeholders. As an Academic Professional employee, the Digital Humanities Specialist is expected to use "investigation time" to pursue areas of his or her interest, not directly in support of an immediate program need, in accordance with the University Library's policy on Investigation Time for Academic Professional Employees. Some investigations that originate in this manner may evolve into regular work assignments or production activities. [link to policy] Qualifications: Required: Bachelor's degree in an Information Technology field, such as Library and Information Science or Computer Science, and two years of experience working in a related field; knowledge of or experience with one or more of the following technologies: XML, XML Schema, XSLT, Dynamic HTML; experience in a library setting working with metadata encoded in one or more of the following schemas: MARC, MODS, METS, EAD, TEI, Dublin Core; experience with common digital image formats such as JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, PNG, and GIF; experience writing and implementing Web scripts such as Perl, PHP, ASP, Ruby, Python, or VB Script; the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment; excellent organizational skills and a demonstrable ability to manage multiple priorities; the ability to remain conversant with newly evolving technologies; effective oral and written communication skills. Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science or Library and Information Science or related information technology field; background or degree in a humanities discipline; knowledge of relational database design principles and SQL; experience with newspaper digitization or other humanities digitization program; experience writing web applications using CSS, XSLT or JavaScript; ability to program interactive, database-driven web applications; experience in a library IT unit or working with library-specific applications; experience in planning and implementing programs or services; experience working with digital conversion vendors; knowledge of or experience with digital preservation strategies; experience in writing grant proposals. Environment: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library is a leader in the delivery of user services, and active programs in information, instructional, access, and scholarly services help the Library to maintain its place at the intellectual heart of the campus. The Library also holds one of the preeminent research collections in the world, encompassing more than 12 million volumes and a total of more than 23 million items. The Library is committed to maintaining the strongest collections and service programs possible, and to engaging in research, development, and scholarly practice - all of which support the University's missions of teaching, research, and public engagement. The Library employs approximately 100 faculty members, and more than 300 academic professionals, staff, and graduate assistants. For more information, see: http://www.library.illinois.edu/ The Library consists of more than 30 departmental libraries located across campus, as well as an array of central public, technical, and administrative service units. The Library also encompasses a variety of virtual service points and "embedded librarian" programs. Salary and Rank: Salary and rank commensurate with credentials and experience. This is full-time academic professional position. Terms of Appointment: Twelve-month appointment; 24 annual vacation days; 11 annual paid holidays; 12 annual sick-leave days (cumulative), plus an additional 13 sick-leave days (non-cumulative) available, if needed, each year; health insurance requiring a small co-payment is provided to employee (with the option to purchase coverage for spouse and dependents); required participation in State Universities Retirement System (SURS) (8% of annual salary is withheld and is refundable upon termination), with several options for participation in additional retirement plans; newly-hired employees are covered by the Medicare portion of Social Security and are subject to its deduction. Campus and Community: Chartered in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a comprehensive, public, land-grant university (Doctoral/Research University - Extensive) ranked among the best in the world, including "Top 20" programs in fields such as Engineering, Fine Arts, Business, and Library & Information Science, among others . Its faculty and staff provide undergraduate and graduate education in more than 150 fields of study, conduct theoretical and applied research, and provide service to the state, the nation, and the world. It employs 3,000 faculty members serving 31,000 undergraduate and 11,000 graduate and professional students; approximately 25% of faculty receive campus-wide recognition each year for excellence in teaching. For more information, see: http://illinois.edu/about/about.html The University is located in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, which have a combined population of 100,000 and are situated approximately 140 miles south of Chicago, 120 miles west of Indianapolis, and 170 miles northeast of St. Louis. The University and its surrounding communities offer a cultural and recreational environment ideally suited to the work of a major research institution and its members. For more information, see: http://illinois.edu/about/community/community.html To Apply: https://jobs.illinois.edu/ Attach letter of application and complete resume, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three (3) references. to: Cindy Kelly, Head, Library Human Resources, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801. For questions, please call: 217-333-8169. Deadline: In order to ensure full consideration, applications and nominations must be received by **JULY 11, 2011.** THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Harriett Green English and Digital Humanities Librarian Assistant Professor of Library Administration University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 225 Main Library, MC-522 1408 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, Illinois 61801 green19@illinois.edu | 217-333-4942 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 23 21:00:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DB216211C; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:00:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A530F162109; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:59:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110623205957.A530F162109@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:59:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.127 cfp: virtual worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 127. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:52:03 +0100 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: [Catac] cfp: cultures in virtual worlds Cultures in virtual worlds A special issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Guest-edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Adrienne Massanari Virtual worlds (VW) embody cultures, their artefacts, and their praxes; these new and old spaces of imagination and transformation allow humans to interact in spatial dimensions. Within these spaces, culture manifests with the creation, representation, and circulation of meaningful experiences. But virtual worlds are not novel in that regard, nor should we make the mistake to assume that they are novel in themselves. Virtual experiences have been around in some respect for hundreds of years, and virtual worlds based in information technology have existed for at least 40 years. The current generation of virtual worlds, with roots over four decades old in studies of virtual reality, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), sociology, cultural studies, and related topics, provide for rich and occasionally immersive environments where people become enculturated within the world sometimes as richly as the rest of their everyday lives. We seek research that encounters and investigates cultures in virtual worlds in its plurality and in its richness. To that end, we invite papers covering the breadth of the topic of cultures in and of virtual worlds. Some possible areas/approaches of inquiry: 1. How culture of virtual worlds affect relationships 2. VW interfaces and culture/s 3. Hidden subcultures/communities in virtual worlds 4. Ages and VW cultures 5. Emic and etic experiences of virtual worlds 6. Producing VW cultures 7. Traditional cultural/critical studies inquiries of VWs 8. Transnational or cosmopolitan cultures in/of VWs While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, we prefer theoretically and empirically grounded studies. We seek a Special Issue that exemplifies methodological pluralism and scholarly diversity. The use of visual evidence and representations is also encouraged. We especially seek pieces that investigate virtual worlds that have received little scholarly attention. Submission guidelines This special issue is Guest-Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger (Virginia Tech) and Adrienne Massanari (Loyola University Chicago). Queries regarding the Special Issue should be directed to them at jhuns@vt.edu and amassanari@luc.edu. The Guest-Editors welcome contributions from both new researchers and those who are more well-established. Submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review. Length of papers will vary as per disciplinary expectations, but we encourage articles of around 7000 words (longer articles may be possible, if warranted). Short discussion papers of around 3000 words on relevant subjects are also welcomed as 'Technical Notes'. Detailed author submission guidelines are available online at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1361-4568&linktype=44. Papers must be submitted via the journal’s online submissions system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham Please indicate that your submission is for the Special Issue on Culture in Virtual Worlds. The special issue will be published in summer 2012. Important dates: November 11, 2011 Paper submission deadline February 10, 2012 Author notification May 5, 2012 Final copy due Summer 2012 Publication Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 23 21:01:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB1AA1621CC; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:01:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9B244162186; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:01:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110623210142.9B244162186@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:01:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.128 events: supporting DH; markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 128. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christiane Fritze Subject: cfp: SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities, 17/18 Nov 2011 Copenhagen [2] From: Tommie Usdin (23) Subject: Late Breaking News added to Balisage 2011 Program --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:41:52 +0200 From: Christiane Fritze Subject: cfp: SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities, 17/18 Nov 2011Copenhagen First call for papers *SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities: Answering the unaskable* 17-18 November, Copenhagen Following the first successful SDH conference in Vienna in 2010, the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives have decided to jointly organise the second SDH conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 2011. The conference venue will be at the University of Copenhagen, a participant in both CLARIN and DARIAH. Digital technologies have the potential to transform the types of research questions that we ask in the Humanities, and to allow us to address traditional questions in new and exciting ways, but ultimately they will also allow us to answer questions that we were not even aware we could ask, hence the title of this conference. How can digital humanities help us not just to find the answers to our research questions more quickly and more easily, but also to formulate research questions we would never have been able to ask without access to large quantities of digital data and sophisticated tools for their analysis? Supporting the Digital Humanities will be a forum for the discussion of these innovations, and of the ways in which these new forms of research can be facilitated and supported. CLARIN and DARIAH are creating European research infrastructures for the humanities and related disciplines. SDH2011 aims to bring together infrastructure providers and users from the communities involved with the two infrastructure initiatives. The conference will consist of a number of topical sessions where providers and users will present and discuss results, obstacles and opportunities for digitally-supported humanities research. Participants are encouraged to engage with honest assessments of the intellectual problems and practical barriers in an open and constructive atmosphere. The first SDH conference in 2010 gave a broad and multi-facetted presentation of the domains of interest to CLARIN and DARIAH. This time we have chosen a somewhat more focussed approach, focussing on two major themes, but not excluding other themes of interest for the humanities. The two themes are: • Sound and movement – music, spoken word, dance and theatre • Text and things – text, and the relationship between text and material artefacts, such as manuscript, stone or other carriers of text Submissions are invited for individual papers and posters, as well as panels. Focus should be on tools and methods for the analysis of digital data rather than on digitisation processes themselves, both from the provider and from the user perspective. We want to pay special attention to inspiring showcases that demonstrate the innovative power of digital methods in the humanities. *Some important dates:* July 15, 2011: Submission of suggestion for panels July 24, 2011: Submission of abstracts (4 pages) August 15, 2011: Notification on panel proposals September 15, 2011: Author notification October 15, 2011: Final version of papers for publication (8 pages). November 17-18: Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark *Programme committee:* Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, Netherlands Helen Bailey, University of Bedfordshire, UK Tim Crawford, Goldsmith’s University of London, UK Matthew Driscoll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, United States Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany Fotis Jannidis, Würzburg University, Germany Helen Katsiadakis, Academy of Athens, Greece Krister Lindén, Helsinki University, Finland Heike Neuroth, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany Laurent Romary, INRIA, France Nina Vodopivec, Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia Peter Wittenburg, MPI, Netherlands/Germany Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK Christiane Fritze on behalf of the DCO -- DARIAH-EU Coordination Office Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities Papendiek 14 37073 Goettingen Germany phone: +49 551 39 9061 mail: dariah-dco@dariah.eu www: http://www.dariah.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:54:11 -0400 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Late Breaking News added to Balisage 2011 Program Balisage 2011 Program Finalized When the regular (peer-reviewed) part of the Balisage 2011 program was scheduled, a few slots were reserved for presentation of "Late breaking" material. These presentations have now been selected and added to the program. Topics added include: - XQuery and SparQL - XQuery and XSLT - the Logical Form of a Metadata Record - Why is XML a pain to produce? - XML Serialization of C# and Java Objects - testing XSLT in continuous integration - dealing with markup without using words - REST for document resource nodes - tagging journal article supplemental materials - using 15 year old SGML documents in current software The program already included talks about DITA, XSLT, generic microformats, XML Ebooks, JSON, multiple hrefs, XML editors, markup overlap, encryption of XML documents, and XML Interoperability, among others. Now it is a real must for anyone who thinks deeply about markup. 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 2011 conference at http://www.balisage.net. Schedule At A Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2011/At-A-Glance.html Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2011/Program.html ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011 mailto:info@balisage.net August 2-5, 2011 http://www.balisage.net Symposium on Document-Oriented XML Montreal, Canada August 1, 2011 ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 25 21:08:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5083E164039; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:08:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92CF816402F; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:08:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110625210852.92CF816402F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:08:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.129 critical apparatus? parameters for a new media institute? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 129. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Winokur (30) Subject: Please engage in blog dialogue for founding of Digital/New Mediainstitute [2] From: Marc Shepherd (9) Subject: Origin of Critical Apparatus Format --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:20:17 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Please engage in blog dialogue for founding of Digital/New Mediainstitute Dear New/Digital Media Colleagues: Blog on New Media Institute Formation at the University of Colorado, Boulder Your input would be gratefully appreciated on the formation of an as-yet-do-be-defined school, college, or institute of Information and/or New Media studies at The University of Colorado at Boulder. A few New Media scholars have created a blog for crowdsourcing ideas for this new initiative at http://www.dighuman.com/. At the moment the administration is open both to LARGE scholarly and pedagogical ideas for this new entity, and to ideas about the structure of this entity. A number of new-media scholars and artists at the University of Colorado have co-signed a draft of a white paper outlining a possible form this institution might take. Most of these people are part of the official decision-making process. We have been assured that some real money will be devoted to this project, so that we are allowed to think big. And, because the parameters of this new institute are so undefined, controversy is very welcome. I should stress that this blog is unofficial: it is not sanctioned by the university. This leaves room, we hope, for a broader discussion than might be possible under a university-moderated site. Put differently, the blog is not answerable to regents, provosts, and presidents. Here again is the URL for the blog: http://www.dighuman.com/ The registration process is open to all. Please sign up and engage in the conversation. Best, Dr. Mark Winokur University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80209 mark.winokur@colorado.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:44:55 +0100 From: Marc Shepherd Subject: Origin of Critical Apparatus Format What is the origin of the standard format of the critical apparatus, namely, to introduce each note with the lemma and a right bracket? I know it goes at least as far back as Lewis Theobald’s edition of Shakespeare, but as Theobald gave no explanation, he must have assumed his readers would be familiar with this convention. Is anyone credited with having devised this system? How far back was it used? -- Marc Shepherd New York, NY _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 21:10:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BE01640B0; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:10:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A6B1164091; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:10:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110625211049.6A6B1164091@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:10:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.130 if not digital? but it is! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 130. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mats Dahlström" (46) Subject: Sv: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... [2] From: John Levin (37) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... [3] From: Stephen Woodruff (21) Subject: digital edition of "Switching Codes:.." --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:46:28 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: Sv: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... In-Reply-To: <20110623205200.8EEF1162E82@woodward.joyent.us> It is indeed available electronically. I just read it as an e-.book on a subscription basis through Dawsonera >>> Humanist Discussion Group den 23 juni 2011 22:52 >>> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 125. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes In-Reply-To: <20110620203537.DB16B15F105@woodward.joyent.us> Not available electronically: not interested. --- On Mon, 6/20/11, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: Humanist Discussion Group > Subject: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Date: Monday, June 20, 2011, 1:35 PM > > Humanist Discussion Group, > Vol. 25, No. 116. > Centre for Computing > in the Humanities, King's College London > [...] > > I have in my hands a newly published book that so far has > rewarded the > reading: > > Bartscherer, Thomas and Roderick Coover, eds. 2011. > Switching Codes: > Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and > the Arts. > Chicago: University of Chicago Press. > > Below is the table of contents. > > Read it tonight! > > Yours, > WM [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:15:33 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... In-Reply-To: <20110623205200.8EEF1162E82@woodward.joyent.us> Just for fun, I'm going to take issue with this: On 23/06/2011 21:52, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:22 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bob Blair > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes > In-Reply-To:<20110620203537.DB16B15F105@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Not available electronically: not interested. > > --- On Mon, 6/20/11, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> >> I have in my hands a newly published book that so far has >> rewarded the >> reading: >> >> Bartscherer, Thomas and Roderick Coover, eds. 2011. >> Switching Codes: >> Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and >> the Arts. I think you mean: not available under a free license, to reproduce at will, to share, to be able to discuss with people. Because there's all sorts of 'electronic' stuff that is laughable expensive*, unavailable to non-"accredited" scholars, can't be found in second-hand bookshops for a couple of quid, and won't even take being dog eared. Analogue vs digital is tedious stuff. Freedom versus bondage is worth going to war over. John * example: $34 for a journal article ( http://www.jstor.org/pss/2638385 ) ? Books cost less than that! -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:25:15 +0100 From: Stephen Woodruff Subject: digital edition of "Switching Codes:.." In-Reply-To: <20110623205200.8EEF1162E82@woodward.joyent.us> http://www.ebooks.com/686265/switching-codes/bartscherer-thomas-ed--coover-roderick-ed/ "The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion." justified! SWW Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland/UK _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 25 21:11:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85E81640FB; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:11:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6ABCB1640EC; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:11:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110625211136.6ABCB1640EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:11:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.131 new digital research series X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 131. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:40:54 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital research series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities (Ashgate) Series Editors: Marilyn Deegan is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow at King's College London. Lorna Hughes is University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections, National Library of Wales. Andrew Prescott is Chair of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London, UK. Harold Short is Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, UK. Digital technologies are increasingly important to arts and humanities research, expanding the horizons of research methods in all aspects of data capture, investigation, analysis, modelling, presentation and dissemination. This important series covers a wide range of disciplines with each volume focusing on a particular field, identifying the ways in which technology impacts on specific subjects. The series provides an authoritative reflection of the 'state of the art' in the application of computing and technology. Each book is critical reading for experts in digital humanities and technology issues, and will also be of wider interest to all scholars working in humanities and arts research. For the current nine titles in the series and call for additional proposals, see http://www.ashgate.com/digitalresearch. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 26 19:49:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56119165F2F; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:49:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 434E7165F1D; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:49:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:49:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 132. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (25) Subject: in digital form? free? [2] From: Bob Blair (2) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.130 if not digital? but it is! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:29:33 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: in digital form? free? In discussions about the digital availability of commercially published books I am torn. As a researcher constantly hungry for good ideas (which unsurprisingly are not always to be found in books with interesting titles), I want the stuff now, downloadable, preferably free -- and will (I admit this, Your Honour) get it wherever, whenever I can. As a reader I want the codex book too, since reading on an iPad or similar is still a poor approximation -- better than nothing at all, but still poor. As an author I want above everything else to communicate, and so I really care only for the channel(s) that will do this best. These are almost always the commercial/university press ones, since the folks that run those presses do tend to know what they are doing, and mostly do it very well. As an author I care not a fig for the politics of publishing. I've reached under the bed, grabbed my machine-gun and run off to the wars too, only to find it's a rather more complex war than I had imagined. I've found I have family members on all sides. The peace I'd like to see negotiated would be this: cheap digital edition of each book that comes free with the purchase of the book. What do you think? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:35:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.130 if not digital? but it is! In-Reply-To: <20110625211049.6A6B1164091@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the reference to Dawsonera. I wasn't aware of it. After reading the FAQ I find lots of things not to like about it, but I'm glad to know of it. Bob Blair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 19:35:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36A216511D; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:35:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6539916510F; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:35:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110627193538.6539916510F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:35:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.133 if digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 133. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (35) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital [2] From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (10) Subject: Subject: in digital form? free? [3] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (10) Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital [4] From: Ernesto Priego (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital [5] From: Dennis Moser (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:13:01 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Willard McCarty writes: > As > an author I want above everything else to communicate, and so I really > care only for the channel(s) that will do this best. These are almost > always the commercial/university press ones, since the folks that run > those presses do tend to know what they are doing, and mostly do it very > well. As an author I care not a fig for the politics of publishing. > Having worked for a consortium press once upon a time, I am curious about your statement: "the folks that run those presses tend to know what they are doing, and mostly do it very well." What do you see "the folks that run those presses" doing well? I have encountered volumes that must have satisfied a publisher's LaTeX template but were not "edited" in any meaningful sense of the word. Or series titles that were "camera-ready" copy which repeated the same typos in introductions, volume after volume. Perhaps as a service to the community the Humanist could host a list of commercial/university presses and Humanist members could post known vanity or poorly edited titles for each one. With space for comments/discussion. Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:27:40 +0100 From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh Subject: Subject: in digital form? free? In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> 2011-06-26 Hi Willard! You said: "I want the codex book too, since reading on an iPad or similar is still a poor approximation -- better than nothing at all, but still poor. Take a look at "The Waste Land" app for iPad2... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/12/ts-eliot-waste-land-ipad-app :) Best regards Mícheál --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:30:56 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> indeed, the finances of academic publishing are dire and as we know there is a stream of discussion about this; nevertheless, i side with open-access publishing and it is good that there are a few university publishers -- such as purdue -- who understand that an open-access journal brings brand recognition and it is more often than not increases the sale of print books rather than decreases it; as to what to do with books: methinks it should be parallel, i.e., both pdf for download and print copy and many presses do so: what is odd, however, is that many-a-press sells the pdf of the print copy for little less than the print copy and that is the problem: they would make more money if they would sell the pdf of the book for a fraction of the print copy (the latter of which would be bought by libraries anyway: we know that personal purchases of any academic book is less than minimal...); best, steven totosy steven totosy de zepetnek phd professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/comparative-cultural-studies 8 sunset road, winchester, massachusetts 01890 usa 781-729-1680 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:06:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> --- On Sun, 26/6/11, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > The peace I'd like to see negotiated would be this: cheap digital edition > of each book that comes free with the purchase of the book. What do you think? Yes. That's indeed the model that some (maybe now many) record labels have embraced. Last year In 2008 I bought the Singles Box by the Smiths: a numbered limited edition with the first 10 seven-inch singles in original picture bags, with 2 seven-inch rarities (and the records came with the original writing on the vinyl's matrix, which made them cult objects when they originally came out), badges and a poster. So I bought the beautiful limited and numbered edition box, a tactile object, with a certificate saying I own box number 09987. And I got a code that allowed me to download all the tracks from the box set as MPs. I do love the 'codex', tactile book as much as I love vinyl records. I pay for those. Digital versions I want for convenience. If I buy the object, I expect the files for free. Ernesto --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:53:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Dennis Moser Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard has digitally invoked the Ghost of Panizzi . . . "I want a poor student to have the same means of indulging his learned curiosity, of following his rational pursuits, of consulting the same authorities, of fathoming the most intricate inquiry as the richest man in the kingdom, as far as books go, and I contend that the Government is bound to give him the most liberal and unlimited assistance in this respect." Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi Best, Dennis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 19:36:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E65C165189; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 51A6C165172; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110627193636.51A6C165172@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.134 events: social media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 134. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:07:10 -0700 From: Merlyna Lim Subject: Fwd: CFP International Conference on Social Media Culture FYI. > Call for Paper > > International Conference on Social Media Culture: >  Political, Economic, Social, and Journalistic Challenges > > Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Atma Jaya > Yogyakarta invites practitioners, scholars and graduate students across >  disciplines to our International Conference on “Social Media Cultures: >  Political, Economic, Social, and Journalistic Challenges.” The > conference will be held on 22 September 2011 at the University of Atma > Jaya Yogyakarta. > > > Background > > Now, we live in the social media era. Facebook and Twitter are popular > among higher classes and older users; also growing among other public. > Facebook and Twitter have been becoming the most important channels for >  changing information paths. Through Twitter, people organize themselves >  in several protests and activities. > > The use of social network tools leads to social changes in everyday > life, politics, education and other fields. The emergence of online > social networks has changed the way information circulates within the > country, creating more awareness, actions and changes. > > This conference is dedicated to providing opportunities for scholars >  and practitioners to share their knowledge and to get involved in > discourse on social media uses and their implications on politics, > economy, social, and journalism, as well as the challenges they bring. > All relevant academic and multidisciplinary perspectives in the area of >  social media culture are welcomed. > > We invite contributors from all disciplines to submit competitive > abstracts for paper presentation at this conference. Abstracts should > revolve around one of the topics indicated below, describing original > work and/or research papers. We also encourage other varieties related > to New Media. > > Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to, the following: > > a. A new democratization? How social media change political cultures? > > b. Social media in corporate communication. > > c. Closing the digital divide: How social are social media? > > d. User generated content: Obstacle or benefit to journalism? > > Abstract Submissions > > Abstracts should be between 300-500 words. Language of both abstracts > and papers is English. The abstract will be peer-reviewed. Required > format of submission is in word format and please include the author > name when saving the document. Include the presenter’s name, > institutional affiliation, a brief biographical note, email and postal > address into a separate file/paper. All documents must be emailed to > Yohanes Widodo, at ywidodo@staff.uajy.ac.id. > > Relevant Dates to be considered > > Deadline for abstract submissions: July 30, 2011 > > Notification of accepted abstracts: August 15, 2011 > > Deadline for full papers: September 10, 2011 > > For registration and further information about the conference, please visit our website http://fisip.uajy.ac.id/ic2011 > _______________________________________________ > International Association for Media and Communication Research - http://iamcr.org > Announcements mailing list > > Join IAMCR | http://iamcr.org/about-iamcr/membership/join-iamcr-mainmenu-237 > > Follow IAMCR's updates on Twitter | http://twitter.com/IAMCRtweets > Visit IAMCR's Facebook Page | http://www.facebook.com/iamcr.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 19:47:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126491654B5; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:47:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 943251654A8; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:47:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110627194715.943251654A8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:47:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.135 new publication: gender in science X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 135. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:46:17 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.2 (June 2011) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.2 (June 2011) 1. Why Gender should be a Priority for our Attention in Science Pollitzer, Elizabeth 101-102(2) 2. Understanding Gender: Some Implications for Science and Technology Hearn, Jeff; Husu, Liisa 103-113(11) 3. Scientific (E)quality Rice, Curt 114-124(11) 4. An Innovative Appraisal of a CV Tarrach, Rolf 125-132(8) 5. The Gendered Construction of Scientific Excellence Rees, Teresa 133-145(13) 6. The role of gender in team collaboration and performance Bear, Julia B; Woolley, Anita Williams 146-153(8) 7. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Achieving Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Schiebinger, Londa; Schraudner, Martina 154-167(14) 8. De-Gendering Neuro-Images: Contingencies in the Construction of Visualization Technologies and Their Use for Establishing Sex-Differences Schinzel, Britta 168-179(12) 9. Incorporating Gender and Sex Dimensions in Medical Research Holdcroft, Anita; Snidvongs, Saowarat; Berkley, Karen J 180-192(13) 10. Gender Issues in Determining the Service and Research Agenda for Pregnancy and Birth Care: the Case of Home Birth in the Netherlands Buitendijk, Simone 193-202(10) 11. Review Samuel, Sajay 203-206(4) 12. Errata 207-207(1) -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 28 21:39:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BB4166160; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:39:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30CCB16614E; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:39:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110628213949.30CCB16614E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:39:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.136 if digital 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. 25, No. 136. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:05:12 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard Re: "The peace I'd like to see negotiated would be this: cheap digital edition of each book that comes free with the purchase of the book. What do you think?" I think that's not a million miles away from what most readers want. It's a side-issue of a technology I'm involved in developing at NUI Maynooth in Ireland. The project is primarily in relation to audio but has applications to protected e-books sold as a complement to physical books. Ideally, purchase of a physical book, particularly academic or specialis books, or those on subscription or bought through an online provider, should be easy to 'tie up' with an individually unique e-copy Ron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 28 21:40:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427241662BF; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:40:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A397916624C; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:40:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110628214042.A397916624C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:40:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.137 job at UCLA 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. 25, No. 137. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:08:21 -0700 From: "Rugg, Annelie" Subject: Position at UCLA in digital humanities Dear colleagues, I am pleased to share information about an open position at UCLA for a Digital Humanities Program Coordinator and Research Technology Consultant. I would appreciate if you would share this information with anyone you think may be interested. We are accepting applications online, as directed in the announcement below, through August 22nd. Regards, Annelie Rugg, Ph.D. Director/Humanities CIO || UCLA Center for Digital Humanities 310.903.7691 || annelie@humnet.ucla.edu UCLA College - Division of Humanities - Digital Humanities ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR (Salary Range $54,192 - $78,660; Level and salary range commensurate with qualifications) The University of California, Los Angeles, invites applications for the position of Academic Administrator as the Digital Humanities Program Coordinator and Research Technology Consultant. Reporting to the Chair of the Digital Humanities Program, the Program Coordinator is responsible for developing courses and teaching in the Digital Humanities program, advising undergraduate and graduate students, and overseeing a variety of faculty research and student support initiatives. The Coordinator will work closely with the Digital Humanities Chair and affiliated faculty to schedule and plan course offerings, place students in mentorships and/or apprenticeships, perform project management duties for those students and their related, faculty-sponsored research projects, recruit and advise students, and collaborate with Centers and Institutes at UCLA, including, but not limited to, the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), the Digital Library Program, the Institute for Digital Research and Education, the Experiential Technologies Center, and the Office of Instructional Development. The Coordinator will contribute research technology expertise to CDH initiatives, and will serve as a key CDH liaison with the Digital Humanities program. The successful candidate must have a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and facilitate broad-based humanities research and teaching projects, which are cooperative ventures between humanists, technologists, scientists, and designers. Administrative experience working with humanities faculty, technology staff, and funding agencies is highly desirable. The successful candidate must have a PhD, preferably in a Humanities discipline. For more information, please visit: http:///www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/ Initial screening of applications will be on August 22, 2011, although we will accept applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled. For the full job description and to apply, please go to: http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/resources/job-openings.html UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 28 21:43:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1811663EE; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2B0E5166398; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:43:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110628214301.2B0E5166398@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:43:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.138 events: HASTAC; TEI; knowledge representation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 138. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prof. Arienne M. Dwyer" (21) Subject: Reminder: KU Knowledge Representation abstracts (30 June) [2] From: Martin Mueller (54) Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2012: Request for proposals [3] From: hastac-web@duke.edu (41) Subject: New Deadline for 2011 HASTAC Conference Proposals! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:19:32 -0500 From: "Prof. Arienne M. Dwyer" Subject: Reminder: KU Knowledge Representation abstracts (30 June) Dear all, The University of Kansas is putting on a one-day 24 September conference on Knowledge Representation (defined broadly), for which **paper and/or poster abstracts are due this Thursday, June 30**. The conference keynote speaker is Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies, formerly W3Consortium). The conference is preceded by a BootCamp (sept 22) and a THATCamp unconference (sept 23). All events are completely free, and open to the public. Registration is required, and space at some events is filling up quickly. Details available at http://idrh.ku.edu/2011conference/ To submit an abstract directly, go to http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=0402J8465876425A408040441 We welcome any and all humanists (again, broadly defined) to join us in September. Best wishes, Arienne -- Arienne M. Dwyer Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities Associate Professor, Linguistic Anthropology University of Kansas --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:03:08 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2012: Request for proposals In-Reply-To: <20110627194715.943251654A8@woodward.joyent.us> With the usual apologies for cross-posting, I would like to solicit proposals for the 2012 meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative, which, according to current patterns of rotation, should be held in North America. The request for proposals is posted at http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tei/2010/11/28/request-for-proposals- tei-conference-and-members-meeting-2012/ For your convenience I replicate it below. Sincerely Martin Mueller Chair, TEI Board of Directors Request for Proposals: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2012The TEI Conference and Members¹ Meeting takes place every year, usually in late October or early November. As far as possible, the venue alternates between Europe and North America. Previous hosts have included the University of Würzburg Centre for Digital Editing (2011), the University of Zadar (2010), the University of Michigan Libraries (2009), King¹s College London (2008), and the University of Victoria (2006). The format of the event is not fixed, but generally keeps the following pattern: * 2 or 3 days of pre-conference workshops * 3 days of conference sessions, keynote lectures, poster sessions, and meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups The Annual General Meeting for members of the TEI Consortium is also held during the event. Accounts are presented and election results declared at this AGM, which is open to the public. The three days of the main conference normally take place between the Thursday and Saturday of the week of the conference. The pre-conference workshops may vary in length from a single morning or afternoon to a full two days. Attendance at the conference has varied between about 70 and 200, to some extent depending on location, but 100 is the usual average attendance. The TEI Consortium will subsidize a share of the direct costs incurred in running the event, up to a maximum of US$5200. Bids should include a budget indicating the level of additional funding anticipated and its likely source (local institutions, commercial sponsorship etc.) The TEI normally charges and retains a small attendance fee, in the region of $100 to covers its own overheads to ensure that it is able to underwrite the cost of future conferences. Bids for the 2012 conference must be received no later than 1 September 2011. Institutions considering making a proposal are requested to contact the chair of the TEI Board (martinmueller@northwestern.edu) as soon as possible to discuss their proposal. Completed bids should include the following information: * The name of the institution(s) making the bid and a list of proposed members of the local organising team * The name, address, email, and telephone number of a contact person * A brief description of the facilities available for the event (rooms, equipment, technical support, food) * A preliminary budget In submitting bids, local organisers are strongly encouraged to be creative: the TEI meeting is an expression of the TEI community in all its diversity and should be seen as an opportunity to showcase local interests and strengths. Bids will be reviewed by the TEI board deuring September, and a decision taken in time to announce the venue at the 2011 Meeting in Wurzburg. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:08:10 -0400 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: New Deadline for 2011 HASTAC Conference Proposals! In-Reply-To: <20110627194715.943251654A8@woodward.joyent.us> Due to enthusiastic response to our 2011 HASTAC Conference CFP, and due to conflicts with summer travels and holidays, we have decided to reschedule the deadline to *September 15, 2011*. The University of Michigan will be hosting the 2011 annual HASTAC Conference face-to-face on its Ann Arbor campus December 2 and 3. We invite proposals for presentations on the general theme of Digital Scholarly Communication. Deadline for submission is *September 15, 2011*. Proposals can be submitted here: http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal [1] We seek topics which may range over but need not be restricted to, the role of digital technologies in: * Reformulating scholarly projects and products. (This might include questions of narration and argumentation, evidence and epistemology, interactivity, and/or text/visual presentation.) * Re-mapping the routes through which scholarly products circulate. * Expanding the digital arts to include the humanities and vice versa. * Reshaping the global system of knowledge production in the humanities in terms of access, circulation, exchange and equity within the global north and between the global north and south. * Generating new kinds of research and teaching partnerships. Topics may also include: * Copyright challenges and strategies for digital scholarly communication. * Web design and digitization of archives for multiple and different constituencies (local communities, global peers). * New forms of research, digitally based, in the humanities. The middle part of the day on both December 2 and 3 will be given over to concurrent sessions. People may present in any of three formats: * An individual five-minute “lightening” talk or ten-minute lecture-style presentation, with or without technology (e.g., PPT, Prezi) * A panel on a common theme with short presentations to allow for discussion time, with or without technology * A poster project or demo for conversation in a digital display area (e.g., YouTube or other presentation format uploaded to conference website; laptop-based video on a continuous loop, slidecast, interactive website; print poster board) Presenters will have the option of pre-circulating materials on the website before and during the conference. Information on an Unconference event for December 1 forthcoming). Deadline for submission is *September 15, 2011*. Proposals can be submitted here: http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal [2] [1] http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal [2] http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 29 22:41:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC29B1670DC; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:41:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6B90D1670CD; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:41:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:41:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 139. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:50:34 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: about tied-down e-books Whatever publishers may come up with, I don't think any e-book requiring a special reader or visible only through dedicated software has much of a chance, certainly not with me. Give the near-universality and relative flexibility of pdf, I'd think that a pdf version of a printed book would be the way to go. I want something that can slip around between my laptop and my iPad, that lives comfortably with the many other pdfs I have (in the GBs), that is searchable and can be indexed by the laptop system software and requires no special fuss of any kind. Until that happens I'll continue to acquire pdfs by whatever means possible -- but again not for reading except when I must (I want the codex for that function), rather for searching. Unreasonable? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 29 22:43:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3F01671B0; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:43:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DCF6516719D; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:43:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110629224324.DCF6516719D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:43:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.140 events: classics; XSLT; social media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 140. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katrin Weller (125) Subject: Call for Papers: Social Media and Web Science [2] From: Julia Flanders (41) Subject: XSLT workshop at Brown: registration closing soon [3] From: "Mahony, Simon" (42) Subject: Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures (seminar) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:21:03 +0200 From: Katrin Weller Subject: Call for Papers: Social Media and Web Science For those of you who speak German, the following conference call may be of interest. There also is a "European Afternoon" as a sub-workshop for an english-speaking audience (see more infos on that here: http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx) *Apologies for cross-posting* Call for Papers: ----------------------------------------------- DGI-KONFERENZ 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA UND WEB SCIENCE Das Web als Lebensraum ----------------------------------------------- 2. DGI Konferenz, 64. DGI Jahrestagung Düsseldorf, 22. und 23. März 2012 Vollständiger Call for Papers: http://www.dgi-info.de/OnlineTagung.aspx Twitter Hashtag: #dgi2012 Das noch immer wachsende Angebot an Social Media und Social Software hat längst dazu geführt, dass sich immer mehr Bereiche des täglichen Lebens (auch) ins World Wide Web verlagern. Das Web ist damit weit mehr als ein technisches Hilfsmittel zur Arbeitserleichterung für bestimmte Berufsfelder oder spezialisierte Informationsbedarfe. Es ist Nachrichtenmedium, Bibliothek und Nachschlagewerk, Schreibtisch, Shoppingcenter, Stammtisch, Familienfotoalbum, Reiseführer, Geldautomat und vieles mehr. Die DGI lädt daher zur interdisziplinären Fachdiskussion ein: Führungs- und Fachkräfte, Strategen, Entwickler, Information Professionals, Wissensmanager, Studierende und Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen Informationswissenschaft, Bibliothekswissenschaft, Dokumentationswissenschaft und Informatik sowie aus angrenzenden und komplementären Themenbereichen z.B. aus Rechtswissenschaft, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften sowie Mitglieder aus Forschungseinrichtungen, aus der Wirtschaft, aus der Verwaltung und aus dem Bildungswesen sind aufgerufen, ihre aktuelle Position und neue Erkenntnisse vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Insbesondere freuen wir uns über die Einreichung von Originalbeiträgen zu folgenden thematischen Aspekten: SOCIAL MEDIA * Kollaborative und kollektive Informationsdienste (z.B. Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Wikis, Mash-Ups, virtuelle Kollaboratorien) * Information Retrieval im Social Web / Social Search * Wissensrepräsentation im Social Web (z.B. Social Tagging) * Social Semantic Web * Social Software Use Cases & Policies (z.B. im Unternehmen, in Forschung und Lehre, in Bibliotheken) * Enterprise 2.0: Wissensmanagement im Social Web oder der Einsatz von Social Software im Wissensmanagement * Social Analytics, Metriken zur Vermessung von Sozialen Netzwerken und Social Software * Marktforschung und Trendmonitoring, Erfolgsmessung von Social Media * Identitätsmanagement und Reputation im Social Web * Communities of Practice und Nutzernetzwerke * Werbung im Social Web, Web-Ökonomie * Netzwerkökonomie des Web * Neue Geschäftsmodelle im Social Web (z.B. App Economy), Anpassung traditioneller Angebote an neue Nutzeranforderungen * Linked Data und Open Data im Social Web WEB SCIENCE * Kommunikation und Kommunikationsformen im Web (z.B. Blogs, Microblogging) * Informationskompetenz und Didaktik der Informationswissenschaft * Messung von Informationsverhalten * Informationsverhalten und Informationsbedürfnisse spezieller Zielgruppen * Visualisierung von Daten- und Nutzerstrukturen und Informationen * Wissenschaft und Internet: eScience, Digital Humanities, digitale Wissenschaft, Wissenschaftskommunikation * eLearning * Serious Games und Online-Spiele (z.B. browser-based Games) * (digitale) Bibliotheken * Digital Divide, Zugang zu Web-Informationen, Accessibility, Usability * Emotionen im Web * Rechtliche Aspekte im (Social) Web (z.B. Zugangsrechte, Urheberrechte) * Vertrauen und Privatsphäre im Web * Cybercrime und Gefahren im Web * eGovernment & eGovernance & eDemocracy * eActivism & eProtest (z.B. Guttenplag-Wiki, Wikileaks) * Informationspolitik * Crowdsourcing (z.B. in der Politik, in der Wissenschaft, in Unternehmen) * Informationsgesellschaft * Mobiles Web und Location Based Services * Webometrie * Interdisziplinäre Ansätze zur Erforschung des WWW, beispielsweise unter Berücksichtigung der folgenden Disziplinen: Informatik, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Rechtswissenschaft, Linguistik, Psychologie. VORSCHLÄGE FÜR BEITRÄGE Originalbeiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache können über das Konferenztool Easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgi2012) eingereicht werden. Unterschieden werden die folgenden Beitragsformen: 1. Wissenschaftliche Langbeiträge: max. 36.000 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen (wissenschaftlicher Aufbau der Arbeit, Zitierapparat im APA-Zitationsstil, Darstellung durchgeführter Forschungsprojekte und ausführliche Ergebnispräsentation). 2. Praxisorientierte Kurzbeiträge: max. 18.000 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen (Erfahrungsberichte, Fallbeispiele aus Anwendungsumgebungen/Case Studies, innovative Ansätze und Lösungen im Bereich der Konferenzthemen). 3. Posterbeiträge: max. 6.000 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen (Darstellung aktuellster Forschungsergebnisse oder Work in Progress). Akzeptierte Beiträge werden als Vorträge (in deutscher Sprache) bzw. als Poster bei der DGI Konferenz 2012 vorgestellt und im begleitenden Tagungsband veröffentlicht. Studierende und Auszubildende sind herzlich eingeladen, ihre Arbeiten in einer der drei Beitragsformen einzureichen. Die besten Beiträge von Studierenden oder Auszubildenden werden zudem mit einem Nachwuchspreis (gesponsort von Elsevier) ausgezeichnet. TERMINE Einreichung von wissenschaftlichen Langbeiträgen: 31.08.2011 Einreichung von praxisorientierten Kurzbeiträgen: 15.09.2011 Einreichung von Posterbeiträgen: 15.10.2011 Benachrichtigung über die Annahme: 21.11.2011 Einreichung der druckfertigen (überarbeiteten) Version: 21.12.2011 VERANSTALTER DGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. Windmühlstraße 3 60329 Frankfurt am Main Telefon 069 430313 Telefax 069 4909096 E-Mail: mail@dgi-info.de Internet: www.dgi-info.de Ansprechpartner: Nadja Strein (Leiterin der DGI-Geschäftsstelle) PROGRAMMKOMITEE Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Katrin Weller & Isabella Peters Praxisbeiträge: Sonja Gust von Loh Nachwuchs-Beiträge: Kathrin Knautz Begutachtungsverfahren: Tobias Siebenlist --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:19:12 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: XSLT workshop at Brown: registration closing soon Registration is still open for the WWP's upcoming XSLT workshop: July 20-22, 2011 Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities Syd Bauman and David Birnbaum $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: July 9, 2011 And we have a few more workshops coming up as well: August 29-31, 2011 Introduction to TEI Customization Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: August 18, 2011 September 26-28, 2011 Introduction to Text Encoding and Contextual Information with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: September 15, 2011 December 5-7, 2011 Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: November 22, 2011 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 an 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/outreach/seminars/ . All workshops are held at Brown University. We hope to see you in Providence! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library http://www.wwp.brown.edu http://library.brown.edu/cds/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:42:09 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures (seminar) Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 Friday July 1st at 16:30 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”) Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures: From practice to requirements ALL WELCOME In the context of Preparing DARIAH, the DCU engaged in a research programme consisting partly of an empirical study of scholarly research activity. The study involved 24 interviews, and the largest groups of interviewees included archaeologists, historians and classicists. What emerged was the diversity in the evidence and sources associated with Classical Studies nowadays. Classicists indicated that in addition to text-based research they also use objects, sites, and other historical-cultural material. This challenges earlier perceptions that Classicists only employ strictly linguistic/textual methods of research. Moreover, it indicates the evolving nature of Classics as an increasingly hybridized, thematic, and multi-methodological interdiscipline. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Simon Mahony Student Support Manager Department of War Studies, e-Learning Programme Room K7.05, 7th Floor, South Range King's College London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/wimw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 30 21:34:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8411680A6; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:34:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1578B16808C; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:33:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110630213358.1578B16808C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:33:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.141 if digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 141. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (17) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital [2] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (8) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital [3] From: Ron Healy (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital [4] From: D.Allington (18) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:51:21 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> No, not at all. I've been trying to think through an earlier incarnation of this question of yours but haven't been able to very successfully. I prefer physical books for some kind of work and electronic texts for others. I think I prefer the physical book to the ebook upon first reading. Part of my memory of the text involves a spatial or geographic relationship between the ideas as well as a conceptual one. For that relationship to develop, I need a physical text. The ebook is too ephemeral. Pages only really exist one page at a time. I think once I'm thoroughly familiar with a work I prefer ebooks for certain types of work, especially keyword searching and related functions. Jim R > Until that happens I'll continue to acquire pdfs by whatever means possible -- but > again not for reading except when I must (I want the codex for that > function), rather for searching. > > Unreasonable? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:35:14 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> Actually, I prefer the ascii text version from Gutenberg so that I can use the concordance capabilities of the Linux cli. Secondly, I wonder about the current fascination with tablets, even with Android 3. Dave Postles http://www.historicalresources.myzen.co.uk http://www.thehungersite.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:38:24 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> Willard Re: "Whatever publishers may come up with, I don't think any e-book requiring a special reader or visible only through dedicated software has much of a chance" I think the distinction needs to be made here between proprietary 'locked out' types of software and open-access software. I realise this might seem a bit pedantic but PDFs require special software just as any other file type does. It just so happens that they're ubiquitous and most devices now open them. It wasn't always the case. Try opening one when Adobe Reader or something similar is not installed. In answer to your point about cross-device, always available access, that's what browsers do very well, these days. So, to take your position and swing it 180 degrees position.... you are not interested in eBooks that require special software and you want to be able to interact with them in clearly defined ways, doing the sort of thing you can do on the web (eg search, copy etc). So, you prefer PDFs, for which you need dedicated software to access your (Adobe Reader) documents and/or can access them from anywhere on any device using a web-browser (even if the file is stored locally) to enable search, copy etc. It sees that's what you had in mind ;-) Regards Ron --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:11:26 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> I agree with pretty much everything you've said, Willard, but I'd like to raise a couple of issues with pdf. >From my point of view, the first problem with pdf for this purpose is the very feature that has been the secret of its success so far. This is that wherever you display it, it looks the same. Great if you're publishing a document that you want people to print out. But for viewing onscreen, that means a lack of flexibility. When reading on a relatively large screen, I want a line width and font size like a printed book. When reading on a relatively small screen, I want a narrower line width - but not necessarily a smaller font size. That flexibility is the very thing that pdf was designed to eliminate. The other problem with pdf is that it makes text scraping more difficult, since so much formatting information is coded into the file. Okay, this can all be stripped out. But given my previous point, there may be no particular advantage having it there in the first place. What made me reflect on this was my university library's policy of buying ebooks not as well as but instead of printed books - part of a plan to reduce physical stocks by 80% over the next few years. I find the ebooks very difficult to read, partly because - whether they are in pdf or some weird format that can only be viewed through the publisher's website - they preserve the layout of the print edition, which doesn't always suit the hardware I'm trying to view them on. Ejournals do this too, of course (pdfs again!), which is why I usually print them out if I'm going to read them all the way through. It would be a terrible waste to do that with a whole ebook, and in any case I'm usually prevented from doing so, since the publisher doesn't want unpaid-for copies of its books floating around on A4 paper. I am of course ignoring the fact that the pdfs generally look nicer - provided they've been well designed and typeset. Now, this is something I actually care about. I've worked in design, my primary discipline is book history, and I have the deepest respect for typographers. The trouble is, these pre-formatted ebooks that my library is buying are so inconvenient to use that all the benefits of visual design are cancelled out. So the solution I would advocate is something like Willard's: physical books should be sold with an ebook edition on the side. The physical book should be designed and typeset to be attractive to and readable by humans. However, the ebook should be in whatever format gives the most flexibility and compatibility, losing the benefits of good visual design but enabling the file to be read and used in as wide a variety of ways as possible, as conveniently as possible. The obvious candidates would by HTML and XML, though as we all know, the most flexible and compatible file type of all is plain text. Yes, plain text is ugly. But the reader can view it in just about anything, from Firefox to Emacs, enabling him or her to change the line width, the font size, and the typeface at will. It's also really well suited to the technologies used by visually impaired readers. And of course, it's very easy to process. Best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 30 21:34:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8384616814E; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:34:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E7328168135; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:34:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110630213451.E7328168135@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:34:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.142 events: networking eSocial Science X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 142. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:22:59 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Networking eSocial Science Call for Papers- Submission DeadlineExtended until July 10, 2011 The 2011 eSocial Science conference, “Networking eSocial Science,” invites papers, workshops, and exhibits addressing the following traditional and conference-related themes. The conference will be hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science from September 6-8, 2011 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Special sessions and workshops at the conference will be devoted to networking eSocial Science. Traditional themes: * Studies using eSocial Science methods and data * Case studies of social science research methods, applications, and practices enabled by cyberinfrastructures and tools * Benefits and challenges of large-scale, distributed, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research facilitated by cyberinfrastructure * New cyberinfrastructure and tools for sociological data integration, sharing, access management and security, data analysis, and curation * New cyberinfrastructure and tools for enabling news sources of data and new methods for data collection * Ethical issues, challenges, and solutions raised by cyberinfrastructure for the collection, integration, sharing, and analysis of personal, social, economic, and other data such as medical records or genomics * Case studies of socio-technical issues in the design and development of e-Research methods, technologies, and tools, including usability issues and solutions Conference themes: * Research on networks using eSocial Science methods * Reports on network tools applicable to eSocial Science * Case studies of existing networks in eSocial Science * Proposals for building networks among eSocial Science investigators, centers, and interested organizations Types of proposals Submissions will be accepted in one of four categories: 1. poster presentations; 2. short papers; 3. full papers; and 4. panel sessions. For all types of submission, please prepare a 750-1000 word abstract describing the research to be presented. Short papers will be given a strict ten-minute time limit for presentations. Full papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. For panels, the organizer should describe the panel topic and include the names and university, organization, or company of all speakers. Deadlines and submission instructions Electronic submissions will be accepted from May 16, 2011 until 11:59PM CST on Friday, July 10, 2011. Potential presenters are encouraged to submit proposals as soon as possible because reviews of submissions will begin on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. Invitations to participate will be issued no later than Friday, July 22, 2011. To make a submission, please visit the submission page of the conference website: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu/esocialscience. Criteria for acceptance are: * The “innovative” nature of the proposal; * The proposal’s relevancy to global issues in technological inquiry; * The proposal’s argument in relation to a grand challenge; * The qualifications of the presenter(s). Awards Awards for best papers by senior scholars and by students will be presented. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 1 23:30:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0139C165298; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:30:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 13EC8165283; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:30:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110701233030.13EC8165283@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:30:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.143 events: semantic archives; empathic bodies & moral brains X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 143. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: Empathic Bodies, Moral Brains, Complex Science [2] From: "Steffen Hennicke" (122) Subject: Workshop "Semantic Digital Archives" Deadline Extended to 15. July2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:36:03 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Empathic Bodies, Moral Brains, Complex Science Empathic Bodies, Moral Brains, Complex Science: Bridging the Gap between the Sciences and the Humanities INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES (UTRECHT) 15 SEPTEMBER 2011 This conference explores critical humanistic perspectives on the changing relations between the sciences and the humanities. It builds on two pillars in an attempt to bridge the long standing gap between them from both sides. The first pillar is provided by new ethical perspectives that have emerged within scientific fields such as primatology, neurobiology and evolutionary theory. The second pillar is provided by new, complexity-sensitive forms of scientific modelling that include rather than exclude ethical questions as an integral part of scientific enquiry. Internationally-renowned scholars Frans de Waal (Emory University, US), and Paul Cilliers (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) will highlight the ethical relevance of their scientific work in primatology and complexity theory. Their key notes will be followed by six workshops on conceptual and practical questions flowing from the attempt to bridge the gap between the sciences and the humanities from both sides. DATE Thursday 15 September, 2011 TIME 9.30 -17 h. PLACE Pieterskerk, Pieterskerkhof Utrecht (morning); University of Humanistic Studies (afternoon) COST €90 (students €35) FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION www.uvh.nl -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:53:46 +0200 From: "Steffen Hennicke" Subject: Workshop "Semantic Digital Archives" Deadline Extended to 15. July2011 Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives" DEADLINE EXTENDED to *15. July 2011* (see Important Dates below) CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** International Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable long-term curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage" to be held as part of the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). 29.09.2011 in Berlin http://sda2011.dke-research.de OBJECTIVES: The Semantic Digital Archives Workshop aims at promoting and discussing sophisticated knowledge representation and knowledge management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival Information Systems. Over the past couple of decades, digitally created content has come to permeate all aspects of our lives and the life cycle of these objects is increasingly exclusively digital. Therefore, sustainable long-term curation perspectives for our digital cultural heritage are essential. Digital content poses many socio-cultural and technological challenges which create obstacles to long-term or indefinite preservation. Changing technologies and shifting user communities as well as the increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with software and multimedia attachments are only a few examples. Dealing with these challenges is the central theme of the workshop. This full day workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the Digital Libraries, the Digital Archives and the Semantic Web community. It specifically encourages closer dialogue between the technical oriented communities and researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences as well as cultural heritage institutions. TOPICS OF INTEREST: We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general subject of Semantic Digital Archives. The following list of topics is meant as an initial guide. Hence, we welcome contributions that focus on, but are not limited to: * ontologies and linked data for digital archives and digital libraries, e.g. semantic extensions of common knowledge models of the digital archiving and digital libraries domain, e.g. METS, EAD, PREMIS, ... * ontologies and (semantic) web services implementing the OAIS standard * theoretical and practical archiving frameworks extending or replacing the OAIS standard * logical theories for digital archives * implementations and evaluations of digital archives * semantic or logical provenance models for digital archives or digital libraries * information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) * trust for ingest and data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records * semantic search and semantic information retrieval in digital archives and digital libraries * visualization and exploration of digital content (stored or to be stored in a digital archive) * semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for digital archives * migration strategies based on semantic (web) technologies * semantic long-term storage and hardware organization tailored for AIS * (empirical) studies evaluating end-user needs and its evolution as well as information seeking behaviour of end-user needs and its evolution * knowledge evolution SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: * regular papers (10 to 12 pages) * short papers (4 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in pdf format. Long and short paper submissions should be in the Springer's LNCS format. Submissions are to be made via the submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2011 Submissions will be reviewed by the three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives Workshop must be presented during the Workshop by a SDA Workshop registered participant. All papers will be published in workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Workshop IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for Submissions: 15 July 2011 * Acceptance Notification: 12. August 2011 * Camera-ready Papers: 26. August 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee members are mentioned at: http://sda2011.dke-research.de/index.php/committees FURTHER DETAILS: http://sda2011.dke-research.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 2 01:42:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7914816656D; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:42:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AFAB16654F; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:42:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110702014206.3AFAB16654F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:42:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.144 call for applications: DHQ Reviews Editor X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 144. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 21:36:17 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for applications: DHQ Reviews Editor Call for applications: Reviews Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly DHQ is seeking one or more new Reviews Editors to recruit and oversee reviews of all forms of digital humanities publication. The Reviews Editors work as a team to solicit and edit reviews of books, software tools, digital publications, and other appropriate reviewable content. The goal is to cultivate an active, international group of reviewers who can cover the full range of DH-related topics and publications in multiple languages. You are: a wide reader, passionate about some area of digital humanities, interested in helping to shape the field, able to work as part of a geographically distributed team. We are: an open-access online journal of digital humanities, published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/. We publish a wide range of material on all areas of digital humanities research and practice. Although the journal is currently published almost entirely in English, we are interested in reviewing DH publications from all languages. To apply, please send email to DHQ@brown.edu with the following information: 1. Background: who are you and what do you do? 2. What do you think makes for a good book, site, or software review? 3. In what geographic or linguistic areas could you cultivate a pool of reviewers? How would you go about cultivating such a pool? 4. With what research domain(s) within the DH research community are you most closely connected? 5. What is the realistic time commitment you could make to this role? How would it fit in with your other activities? best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Editor-in-chief, DHQ Brown University Center for Digital Scholarship _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 6 20:27:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E7016E736; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:27:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF8A416E723; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:27:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110706202728.CF8A416E723@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:27:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.145 job at Illinois-Bloomington X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 145. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:53:34 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Science-oriented digital publishing/data management position at IUBloomington [Note: in the USA "eScience" tends to be more narrowly defined than in the UK, and this position is intended to work within the area of "hard" sciences.] Seeking energetic, innovative, and service-oriented individual for newly created position of E-Science Librarian. Reporting to Head of IUScholarWorks Department: actively participates in university-wide initiatives to develop and design policies, sustainable services, and infrastructure to enable faculty and students to preserve and make available their research data; partners with internal units (such as Digital Library Program and IU Science Libraries) and external units (such as Vice Provost for Research, UITS Research Technologies and Data to Insight Center) to develop data-publishing model that leverages IUScholarWorks ( http://scholarworks.iu.edu/) and other library services in support of data management and preservation; assists faculty with development of data management plans for grant applications; serves as active member of IUScholarWorks Department, contributing to departmental initiatives and leading specific projects; working closely with science librarians, incorporates support for data management and preservation into library services; maintains close engagement with issues relating to scholarly communications such as copyright, open access, and data management and preservation. Qualifications: Required: ALA accredited master's degree in library or information science or related degree; proven ability to effectively lead, manage, and deliver on multiple projects; demonstrated subject knowledge and experience in sciences; demonstrated knowledge of issues and technical challenges related to use and archiving of digital data; proven familiarity with applications that support data preservation, curation and management; experience with institutional or subject repository systems. Preferred: second advanced degree in science discipline; experience with one or more of following web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Java; with DSpace, Fedora, or other repository software; with XML, XSLT, and relational databases; at least three years of experience as a professional librarian. For complete copy of posting, additional required and preferred qualifications, salary and benefit information: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1410 (or http://www.indiana.edu/~vpfaa/prospective_faculty/employment.shtml and scroll down). To apply: Review of applications begins August 15. Position remains open until filled. Send letter of application, professional vita, names/addresses/telephone numbers of four references to: Jennifer Chaffin, Director of Human Resources, Libraries Human Resources, Herman B Wells Library 201B, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405; phone: 812-855-8196; fax: 812-855-2576; e-mail: libpers@indiana.edu. For more information about Indiana University Bloomington, go to http://www.iub.edu. * Indiana University is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer*. Indiana University has a strong commitment to principles of diversity and in that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 Jul 6 20:28:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7042616E7B2; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:28:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4BA3116E79F; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:28:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110706202846.4BA3116E79F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:28:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.146 research using MONK? 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. 25, No. 146. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 20:50:22 +0000 From: "Green, Harriett E" Subject: Survey on use of MONK in research Dear Colleagues, I am requesting your help with a research project that assesses the use of MONK, a web-based text mining software now hosted by the University of Illinois Library: https://monk.library.illinois.edu. This study is being conducted by Harriett Green, English and Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IRB #11357. The research will be conducted via an IRB-approved anonymous research survey that will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. If you have used or reviewed MONK in any way and would like to participate, please click on the following URL to read the informed consent statement and proceed to the survey: https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/6379572 I anticipate that the data gathered in this survey will reveal how humanities scholars use MONK in their research, and ultimately may provide insights into the role of MONK and similar text mining tools in text analysis and literary research. Thank you in advance for your participation and please let me know if you have any questions. Best, Harriett Green English and Digital Humanities Librarian Assistant Professor of Library Administration University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 225 Main Library, MC-522 1408 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, Illinois 61801 green19@illinois.edu | 217-333-4942 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 6 20:29:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0552916E82A; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:29:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3DE1C16E815; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:29:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110706202949.3DE1C16E815@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:29:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.147 the Intelligent Archive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 147. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:25:46 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Intelligent Archive Intelligent Archive Budgerigar Version http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/groups/cllc/intelligent-archive.html The Intelligent Archive program is a Java based piece of software used for text analysis within the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC). The software is used in various different ways by the Centre researchers who are focusing on different aspects of text analysis. The typical CLLC project involves preparing a set of texts for computational stylistics operations, with the ultimate purpose of determining authorship of a disputed literary work, or analysing the style of a work or group of works. The IA serves these projects by organising sets of texts and making word counts which can be exported for analysis in an external spreadsheet or statistics program. It is an interface to an archive of texts, and incorporates a range of counting functionalities which can be determined by the user, hence is an 'intelligent archive'. While most text-processing programs focus on more linguistic outputs, such as concordances, or lists of the commonest collocates of a given word, the IA's primary function is more statistical, centred on producing frequency counts of words. The Intelligent Archive Budgerigar software currently provides the following core facilities: -- Management of individual texts of different formats within a virtual library or repository -- Management of text sets, which are user-created groups of these texts -- Word frequency analysis on individual texts, tagged sections within texts, text sets, contiguous block segments of a specified size within texts, etc. The IA is available free of charge from the website cited above. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 6 20:43:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACF916EAFA; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:43:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3AB216EAF0; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:43:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110706204303.B3AB216EAF0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.148 events: semantics in culture; digital libraries; DH in Lausanne X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 148. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Marlies Olensky" (69) Subject: TPDL 2011 - Last call for Early Bird Registration (July 11, 2011) [2] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (45) Subject: Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison (seminar) [3] From: Claire Clivaz (7) Subject: Switzerland welcomes the Digital Era in August and November --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:57:12 +0200 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 - Last call for Early Bird Registration (July 11, 2011) Please excuse cross-posting -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Early Bird Registration still until July 11, 2011 International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only a few days left to benefit from the early bird rates. Make sure to register until July 11, 2011 - end of business - for TPDL 2011 in Berlin! Registration fees Early / Normal --------------- Conference Full 500 Single day (Mon/Tue) 180 Single day (Wed) 90 Tutorials 130 Workshops Full day 170 Half day 85 Early / Student ---------------- Conference Full 350 Single day (Mon/Tue) 110 Single day (Wed) 55 Tutorials 100 Workshops Full day 140 Half day 70 Doctoral Consortium 55 All fees are in EUR. The late registration fees can be found on the website. In order to provide the highest possible flexibility for attending different workshops during TPDL, we offer the option to book half-days of the workshops. Please note that you need to book at least two half-days. Please register via http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationTPDL2011 Early Bird registration: until July 11, 2011 Late registration: until September 9, 2011 If you encounter any technical problems during your registration please contact: service@wiwex.net For all other enquiries please contact: info.tpdl2011@hu-berlin.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:39:51 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison (seminar) This message was originally submitted by gabriel.bodard@KCL.AC.UK to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (45 lines) ------------------ Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 Friday July 8th at 16:30 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Timothy Hill (New York University) Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity ALL WELCOME As increasing numbers of historical datasets are made available online, the question of how best to mediate among them becomes more pressing. But the standard computational approach to such mediation–the creation of a unifying framework ʻoverʼ the datasets–is problematic in the context of historiography: often, for historians, the question of overarching ʻframeʼ is itself the point at issue. This paper explores, with particular reference to Late Antique urban culture, the potential for electronic tools to free the historian from this reflexive bind, and facilitate an ʻexperimentalʼ research approach to history, as advocated by e.g. Marcel Detienne and other classicist anthropologists. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:59:29 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Switzerland welcomes the Digital Era in August and November Dear List, It is a pleasure to announce to you and to welcome you at our August meeting in Lausanne (CH): "From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and Literacies", 23-25 August 2011. 12 plenary lectures and 40 contributions will offer a unique transdisciplinary event for Classics, Antiquity, New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Modern History, English Literature, French Literature, Humanities and Computing. The lecture by Christian Vandendorpe on "Reflections on the Present Shift in Reading" will notably be an event, in this meeting where English, American and French digital cultures are crossing. A great public night, with academic and artistic performances, will bring to a wider audience what happens right now in the "Digital Humanities" world. On the 11th and 12th November 2011, the University of Lausanne will next welcome the first THATCamp of Switzerland, with an opening lecture by Willard McCarty on the emergence of this new expression, the "Digital Humanities". Milles Kelly (CHMN, USA), Pierre Mounier et Marin Dacos (CLEO, Paris), Jakob Krameritsch et Martin Geisteiner (Vienna), Frédéric Clavert (Luxembourg) will also be present. The manifestation will show that all Switzerland is now entered in the Digital Era, since it is organized by several Swiss institutions: infoclio.ch, Hist.net, Histoire et Informatique, in collaboration with the Swiss Archives, the Basler Historisches Seminar and the E-learning in Zurich. A bunch of scholars are involved in the preparation of these two manifestations. To forget nobody, the signature of this message is simply: "The Swiss Digital Humanities 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 Thu Jul 7 22:22:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B52C16F156; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:22:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8AE6616F142; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:22:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110707222216.8AE6616F142@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:22:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.149 jobs at Indiana-Bloomington; Victoria; Minnesota X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 149. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (104) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.145 job at Illinois-Bloomington [2] From: Ray Siemens (13) Subject: [SDH/SEMI Members] FW: Sessional Lecturer required for Fall 2011:Technology & Society at the University of Victoria [3] From: Laval Hunsucker (27) Subject: Unusual and interesting opportunity --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:31:25 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.145 job at Illinois-Bloomington In-Reply-To: <20110706202728.CF8A416E723@woodward.joyent.us> Indiana University! Not Illinois! Indiana! On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 145. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:53:34 -0400 > From: Dot Porter > Subject: Science-oriented digital publishing/data management > position at IUBloomington > > > [Note: in the USA "eScience" tends to be more narrowly defined than in the > UK, and this position is intended to work within the area of "hard" > sciences.] > > Seeking energetic, innovative, and service-oriented individual for newly > created position of E-Science Librarian. > > Reporting to Head of IUScholarWorks Department: actively participates in > university-wide initiatives to develop and design policies, sustainable > services, and infrastructure to enable faculty and students to preserve and > make available their research data; partners with internal units (such as > Digital Library Program and IU Science Libraries) and external units (such > as Vice Provost for Research, UITS Research Technologies and Data to > Insight > Center) to develop data-publishing model that leverages IUScholarWorks ( > http://scholarworks.iu.edu/) and other library services in support of data > management and preservation; assists faculty with development of data > management plans for grant applications; serves as active member of > IUScholarWorks Department, contributing to departmental initiatives and > leading specific projects; working closely with science librarians, > incorporates support for data management and preservation into library > services; maintains close engagement with issues relating to scholarly > communications such as copyright, open access, and data management and > preservation. > > Qualifications: Required: ALA accredited master's degree in library or > information science or related degree; proven ability to effectively lead, > manage, and deliver on multiple projects; demonstrated subject knowledge > and > experience in sciences; demonstrated knowledge of issues and technical > challenges related to use and archiving of digital data; proven familiarity > with applications that support data preservation, curation and management; > experience with institutional or subject repository systems. > > Preferred: second advanced degree in science discipline; experience with > one or more of following web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, > Perl, > Java; with DSpace, Fedora, or other repository software; with XML, XSLT, > and > relational databases; at least three years of experience as a professional > librarian. > > For complete copy of posting, additional required and preferred > qualifications, salary and benefit information: > http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1410 (or > http://www.indiana.edu/~vpfaa/prospective_faculty/employment.shtml and > scroll down). > > To apply: Review of applications begins August 15. Position remains open > until filled. Send letter of application, professional vita, > names/addresses/telephone numbers of four references to: Jennifer Chaffin, > Director of Human Resources, Libraries Human Resources, Herman B Wells > Library 201B, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405; phone: > 812-855-8196; > fax: 812-855-2576; e-mail: libpers@indiana.edu. > > For more information about Indiana University Bloomington, go to > http://www.iub.edu. * > > Indiana University is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer*. > Indiana University has a strong commitment to principles of diversity and > in > that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, > minorities, and persons with disabilities. > > -- > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) > Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian > Email: dot.porter@gmail.com > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 13:10:35 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: [SDH/SEMI Members] FW: Sessional Lecturer required for Fall 2011:Technology & Society at the University of Victoria In-Reply-To: <20110706202728.CF8A416E723@woodward.joyent.us> Technology and Society Minor Program seeks Sessional Lecturer for TS 300 Appointment within CUPE 4163 (Component 3) The Technology and Society Minor Program is an interdisciplinary minor program spanning the Faculties of the Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, and Human and Social Development. Applications are sought for the position of Sessional Lecturer for the Fall term of 2011 to teach Technology and Society 300. Please submit a brief letter of application, a CV, and the names of three references by email to Dr. Bradley Bryan, Director, Technology and Society Minor Program (techsoc@uvic.ca), no later than July 15, 2011. A decision will be made no later than July 31, 2011. The covering letter should indicate the candidate’s plans and expectations for the course. The ideal candidate would be able to blend the theory and practice of technology, providing a production-based course to students that fostered critical awareness of the human engagement with technology. Preference will be given to an individual with a broad range of theoretical, critical, and practical skills in using a variety of technologies. The course is 1.5 units and is offered for 3 lecture hours per week. Half of the time is spent working in the computer lab. The position reports to the Director of the Technology and Society Program, and is within CUPE 4163 Component 3. For more information on the program and its courses and electives, please visit http://web.uvic.ca/~techsoc/. In all appointments, preference will be given to those with a completed or nearly complete PhD in a relevant field and a combination of expertise and experience appropriate to the courses concerned. The University of Victoria is an equity employer and encourages applications from women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and aboriginal peoples, people of all sexual orientations and genders, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of the University. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, Canadian and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Victoria reserves the right to fill additional teaching assignments from the pool of applicants for this posting. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 08:14:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Unusual and interesting opportunity In-Reply-To: <20110706202728.CF8A416E723@woodward.joyent.us> It seemed to me that this two-year position is too noteworthy ( "online tools to engage a distributed volunteer community of "citizen papyrologists" in transcribing a large number of papyrus texts written in ancient Greek" ;  "The web interface is already under development at Oxford" ;  "efforts to apply computational algorithms" ;  "in association with the School of Physics and Astronomy", etc. ) *not* to mention on this list, where some of those listening may after all even want to consider applying : "Post-Doctoral Associate in Papyrology" -- See advertisement at : http://www.physics.umn.edu/about/news/jobs/3461/Post-Doctoral_Associate_in_Papyrology.html or http://www.postdocjobs.com/jobs/jobdetail.php?jobid=1073174 or http://www.universityjobs.com/jobs/jobdetail.php?jobid=1073174 The opening *was* announced today on the "Papy" list, but not on appropriate more general lists, so far as I noticed. On that list ( which I believe no longer has a publicly available archive ), by the way, there's an additional note to the effect that "Exceptional candidates who are ABD [ All But Dissertation - LH ] with a completion date in the near future will also be considered; these candidates would be appointed as Research Specialists and MUST APPLY FOR THAT POSITION, not the post-doctoral position.", and "Application link for candidates who have not yet completed the doctorate: https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=95746". - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 7 22:23:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F3F16F1ED; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:23:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A215816F1D4; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:23:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110707222339.A215816F1D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:23:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.150 new entries in Lexicons of Early Modern English X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 150. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:07:30 +0100 From: UTP Journals Subject: New entries in Lexicons of Early Modern English Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) - http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ “Firstly, I want to say what an extraordinary and wonderful resource the LEME is. It is invaluable to the academic community who work on these periods and the ways in which you have developed in from the EMDD are formidable. Thank you!” (Charlotte Scott, researcher and LEME user) Locating historical references and accessing manuscripts can be difficult with countless hours spent searching for a single text for the sparsest of contributions to your research. Lexicons of Early Modern English is a growing historical database offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts documenting the growth and development of the English language. With more than 580,000 word-entries from 175 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and linguistic treatises, encyclopedic and other lexical works from the beginning of printing in England in 1702, as well as tools updated annually, LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html sets the standard for modern linguistic research on the English language. Use Modern Techniques to Research Early Modern English! § 175 Searchable lexicons § 121 Fully analyzed lexicons § 581 527 Total word entries § 361 178 Fully analyzed word entries § 60 891 Total English modern headwords Recently added to LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html John Ray's A Collection of English Words not Generally Used (London, 1674), a group of specialized glossaries with 2,128 word-entries. They explain dialectal words, southern and northern, words for fishes and birds, and terms of art in mining. Coming soon to LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html Peter Levins' Manipulus Vocabulorum (London, 1570), a dictionary of 8,940 English-Latin word-entries, organized by English rhyme-endings (with accentuation). This analyzed text owes much to Huloet (added in 2009) and replaces the simple transcription now in the LEME database. John Rider's Bibliotheca Scholastica, an English-Latin dictionary first published by the University of Oxford in 1589. Catholicon Anglicum (ca. 1475), an English-Latin dictionary from Lord Monson's manuscript, reconstructed from a 19th-century Early English Text Society edition. The earliest such lexicon surviving in the language holding some 7,180 word-entries, distinguishes itself by the extensive use of Latin synonyms in explanations. There are two versions of LEME, a public one and a licensed one. The public version of LEME allows anyone, anywhere, to do simple searches on the multilingual lexical database. 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It provides exciting research opportunities for linguistic historians through the following powerful features: § Searchable word-entries (simple, wildcard, Boolean, and proximity) § Documentary period database of more than 10,000 works from the Early Modern era § Large primary bibliography of more than 1,000 early works known to include lexical information § Browseable page-by-page transcriptions of lexical works § A selection list of editorially lemmatized headwords unique to each lexical text § Continually updated new dictionaries, glossaries, and tools each year For more information, please contact University of Toronto Press Journals Division 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON, Canada M3H 5T8 tel: (416) 667-7810 fax: (416) 667-7881 Fax Toll Free in North America 1-800-221-9985 email: journals@utpress.utoronto.ca http://www.utpjournals.com/leme http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ UTP Journals on Facebook and twitter www.facebook.com/utpjournals www.twitter.com/utpjournals Join us for advance notice of tables of contents of forthcoming issues, author and editor commentaries and insights, calls for papers and advice on publishing in our journals. 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For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 7 22:24:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B21516F241; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:24:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7484716F232; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:24:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110707222440.7484716F232@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:24:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.151 textual editing infrastructure and tools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 151. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:27:19 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools, Centre for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago (http://www.ctsdh.luc.edu/?q=node/24) HRIT (Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools) is a project supported by a Digital Startup grant from the NEH, with a research team led by Peter Shillingsburg. Its purpose is to build an open-source, collaborative, robust environment in which to aggregate, link or cross-reference, edit, and share vetted primary documentary texts--along with their scholarly enhancements, analyses, and commentaries, in the form of markup, annotation, keyword tagging, etc. It's based on a secure and integrated merged document, the CorText, which contains multiple variants of a given work and is amenable to standoff markup. The initial tools to be integrated into this environment include the standoff-markup Collaborative Tagging Tool (CaTT) that will enable humanist scholars to create sophisticated scholarly electronic editions and archives in a collaborative environment. The result will be an ecology consisting of the infrastructure, a group of initial on-line tools, and a model vetting system. For more see the URL above. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 7 22:25:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6324116F2A6; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E0C6D16F286; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:25:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110707222523.E0C6D16F286@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:25:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.152 events: models of narrative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 152. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:38:10 -0400 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: Call for Papers: 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative Please distribute to all interested parties: First Call for Papers: ---------------------- International Workshop on ================================= Computational Models of Narrative ================================= May 20-22, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey ----------------------------------------------- Submissions Due: *Friday, February 24, 2012* ----------------------------------------------- http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws12 Workshop Aims ------------- Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. It is clear that, to fully understand and explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why narrative is universal and explain the function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key, fundamental questions about narrative, using computational techniques, so to advance our understanding of cognition, culture, and society. Special Focus: Shared Resources ------------------------------- The computational study narrative does not yet have carefully constructed shared resources and corpora that can catalyze the way forward. This meeting will not only be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative, but also those papers which focus on the identification, collection, and construction of *shared resources and corpora* that facilitate the computational modeling of narrative. Papers should focus on issues fundamental to computational modeling and scientific understanding, or issues related to building shared resources to advance the field. A technological application or motivation is not required. Illustrative Topics and Questions --------------------------------- * What kinds of shared resources are required for the computational study of narrative? * What content and modalities should be put in a "Story Bank" at formal representations should be used? * What shared resources are available, or how can already-extant resources be adapted to common needs? * What makes narrative different from a list of events or facts? What is special that makes something a narrative? * What are the details of the relationship between narrative and common sense? * How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Is there a "universal" scheme for encoding episodes? * What impact do the purpose, function, and genre of a narrative have on its form and content? * What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there such a set? How many possible story lines are there? * Are there systematic differences in the formal properties of narratives from different cultures? * What are appropriate representations for narrative? What representations underlie the extraction of narrative schemas? * How should we evaluate computational models of narrative? Additional Information ---------------------- We will likely have funding available to award travel grants to authors who have papers at the workshop, but would otherwise be unable to attend because of financial constraints. Also in preparation is an arrangement with a noted international journal for a special issue featuring expanded versions of the best papers from the workshop. Organizing Committee -------------------- Mark A. Finlayson, MIT, USA Pablo Gervas, UCM, Spain Deniz Yuret, Koc University, Turkey Floris Bex, Dundee, UK Questions should be directed to: narrative-ws12@csail.mit.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 9 22:53:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0677170A95; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:53:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D673B170A80; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:53:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:53:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 153. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:51:41 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Big Tent hypothesis From time to time I run into people who argue in one way or another that certain kinds of research and/or researchers belong in the digital humanities and others don't. This might be considered a sign of health, or at least of conformity to other disciplines (whose gatekeeping functions tend to be quite robust). It might just be considered what we call human nature. But it seems to me that for a field that by its own nature interrelates to all others in the interpretative and documentary disciplines, excluding people explicitly by type or implicitly by requiring certain kinds of disciplinary behaviour is counter-productive. For example, must a person who self-identifies with the digital humanities conform to any of the following? 1. has a PhD (a) in a humanities subject or (b) in computer science; 2. works in an academic department; 3. works collaboratively; 4. is technically competent (e.g. in one or more programming languages); etc etc I can think of colleagues whose work we value who do not conform to any of the above, or who fail some of these criteria. And so my question: is there *any* criterion you can think of? If so, what is it? Application of related criteria by individual reviewers of papers for the Digital Humanities conference has caused problems in the past, when someone whose primary training is in one discipline reads a paper by someone with a very different background. As Editor of an interdisciplinary studies journal I frequently encounter difficulties of this sort. Indeed I have concluded that anyone who writes for a truly interdisciplinary journal faces quite a problem in satisfying the range of potential readers: not just all the experts but also those who want a peek into a subject in which they have not been trained. On the other hand I would think that the Big Tent hypothesis (i.e. "come one, come all") runs into trouble when we try to strengthen the field by insisting on suitably qualified participants in it. But then, what is strength? When I first started in the field, then mostly called "computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? What do you think? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 9 22:54:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB38F170B22; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:54:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A3AE0170B08; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:54:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110709225431.A3AE0170B08@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:54:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.154 Switzerland and DH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 154. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:16:09 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Switzerland and DH: websites Dear List, I have forwarded a message on two DH events in Switzerland on 6 July, but the hyperlinks disappeared in the process. So the websites are: - www.unil.ch/digitalera2011 : «From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and Literacies», 23-25 August (Lausanne, CH); complete program online, in English and French - www.switzerland2011.thatcamp.org/ : first THATCamp in Switzerland, 11-12 Novembre 2011 (Lausanne, CH) Claire Clivaz, Lausanne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 22:55:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AA1170B88; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:55:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C881170B79; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:55:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110709225521.4C881170B79@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:55:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.155 wiki and event: music information retrieval X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 155. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:50:49 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: 2011 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) Dear Music IR Friends and Colleagues: The 2011 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) wiki is up and running. This will be the seventh iteration of MIREX. We are looking forward to the most rewarding MIREX yet. Over the past six years MIREX has evaluated over 1050 MIR algorithm runs on a wide variety of music-related tasks. The MIREX wiki outlines proposed tasks for MIREX 2011. Of course, if you and some colleagues wish to propose some new tasks, and you have some data for us to use, please feel free to set up at task page on the wiki. In keeping with MIREX tradition, if we have three folks involved in a task, we will run that task. The 2011 MIREX Wiki Page: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2011 Because of robo-spam, most of you will need to make new accounts on the 2011 wiki. Accounts will need to be verified by one of the MIREX team so be patient with us if we fall a bit behind in validating the accounts. The MIREX plenary and poster sessions will be convened on Thursday, 26 August 2011 as part of the 12th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval(ISMIR) in Miami, Florida, from August 24th to 28th, 2011 (http://ismir2011.ismir.net/). We have two sets of submission deadlines this year. A) Tasks with a 26 August 2011 deadline: 1. Audio Classification (Train/Test) Tasks 2. Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval 3. Symbolic Melodic Similarity B) Tasks with a 2 September 2011 deadline: 1. All remaining MIREX 2011 tasks. If you have general questions, feel free to post them to the EvalFest list [1]. Specific problem requests can be made to the MIREX team via . Remember, MIREX is all about community involvement; so, get involved! Cheers, J. Stephen Downie on behalf of the MIREX team. 1. The EvalFest list is the official communications list for MIREX. Subscription information at: https://mail.lis.illinois.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest. -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 NEMA Project Home: http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 9 23:23:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277B2170FF9; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:23:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0D18170FEC; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:23:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110709232305.F0D18170FEC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.156 manuscripts online? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 156. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:21:34 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Manuscripts Online? Dear colleagues, The following questionnaire has come to me via Professor John Thompson, School of English, Queen's University Belfast (J.Thompson@qub.ac.uk). Please circulate it to anyone whose responses might be helpful to the project. Yours, WM ----- Manuscripts Online: Written Culture from 1100 to 1500 Manuscripts Online is a new project that aims to enable federated searching of transcriptions, editions, catalogue descriptions, and calendars of primary texts in English, Latin, French, Welsh etc from or relevant to the British Isles, 1100-1500, on the model of Connected Histories for 1500-1900 (http://www.connectedhistories.org/). The service will be hosted by the University of Sheffield Humanities Research Institute. The specification of the service and a bid for funding are currently being drafted. 1. Would you use such a service? YES [go to question 2] NO [go to question 5] 2. What existing online digitised resources would you like to see included? 3. What digitised datasets that are currently offline would you like to see included? 4. What printed resources would you would like to see digitised and included? 5. Any other comments? 6. Please provide your name, institution, and email address: Thank you! Please send responses to Professor John Thompson, School of English, Queen's University Belfast (J.Thompson@qub.ac.uk). -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 10 20:20:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37691712EA; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF2D51712D6; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110710202005.CF2D51712D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.157 a Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 157. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bob Blair (125) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? [2] From: Doug Reside (96) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 19:28:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> >When I first started in the field, then mostly called >"computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over >whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed >and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we >went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? I doubt whether exclusivity could have resulted in "toughening up" in this field unless "tough" means "limited in scope". There were (and still are, I think) too many potentially valuable backgrounds, skills and points of view that would be rejected by even the coarsest filter. The main factor that makes "big tent" the right policy is the nature of the computational side of the discipline. As revered as academic figure like Donald Knuth and Edsger Dijkstra are, the most rigorous and useful work in computation remains in the realm of creative engineering, where talented individuals can and do make significant contributions without academic credentials. Bob Blair --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:43:15 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> It's not so much that I want to keep anyone out of anything, but I would like to imagine that there is a community of people who are programmers who use their skills to pursue their own research questions in the humanities, and it's useful to have a reserved term to describe this bunch so that you can find collaborators and know what conferences to go to. In the first half of the last decade it seemed like a large number of these sorts of scholars had starting calling themselves Digital Humanists. Then (and in the years before under different names) this group of scholars lived on the margins and sat at the geek table--always worried that the tenure committees would let them into the prom (because, in the U.S. anyway, mostly they didn't). Then a bunch of grant money was discovered to be stuck to some gum under the geek table just when times got really tough for the cool kids, and all the cool kids came on over. At first it seemed like things might start to get really good, but then it turned out the cool kids didn't want to talk to the geeks in their own language or about the things they found interesting. So, I think some of the resistance comes from the geeks who feel like saying, "Um, glad you want to sit with us now, but we were actually talking about the best computer vision algorithms to recognize scribal hands, and we'd really like to get back to it if you don't mind." Doug On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 153. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:51:41 +1000 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: the Big Tent hypothesis > >  From time to time I run into people who argue in one way or another > that certain kinds of research and/or researchers belong in the digital > humanities and others don't. This might be considered a sign of health, > or at least of conformity to other disciplines (whose gatekeeping > functions tend to be quite robust). It might just be considered what we > call human nature. But it seems to me that for a field that by its own > nature interrelates to all others in the interpretative and documentary > disciplines, excluding people explicitly by type or implicitly by > requiring certain kinds of disciplinary behaviour is counter-productive. > For example, must a person who self-identifies with the digital > humanities conform to any of the following? > > 1. has a PhD (a) in a humanities subject or (b) in computer science; > 2. works in an academic department; > 3. works collaboratively; > 4. is technically competent (e.g. in one or more programming languages); > etc etc > > I can think of colleagues whose work we value who do not conform to any > of the above, or who fail some of these criteria. And so my question: is > there *any* criterion you can think of? If so, what is it? > > Application of related criteria by individual reviewers of papers for > the Digital Humanities conference has caused problems in the past, when > someone whose primary training is in one discipline reads a paper by > someone with a very different background. As Editor of an > interdisciplinary studies journal I frequently encounter difficulties of > this sort. Indeed I have concluded that anyone who writes for a truly > interdisciplinary journal faces quite a problem in satisfying the range > of potential readers: not just all the experts but also those who want a > peek into a subject in which they have not been trained. > > On the other hand I would think that the Big Tent hypothesis (i.e. "come > one, come all") runs into trouble when we try to strengthen the field by > insisting on suitably qualified participants in it. But then, what is > strength? When I first started in the field, then mostly called > "computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over > whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed > and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we > went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? > > What do you think? Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 10 20:21:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A84617137C; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:21:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 88739171369; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110710202057.88739171369@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.158 job at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 158. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:01:15 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Research Manager job at UCLDH UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is looking for someone do be our Research Manager. Please do not let the title of the job confuse you, this is intended to be an alt-ac post, it's just that this grade of post has to be described as a Senior Research Associate. It should be ideal for someone who would like to oversee the day to day running of UCLDH's research and help us plan, cost and write new research bids and maintain and enlarge our network of contacts within and outside UCL. Full details of the post are at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACW365/senior-research-associate/. Please feel free to email me with informal enquiries. Claire -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD Director: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 10 20:25:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351FF171500; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:25:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5BB331714EC; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:24:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110710202455.5BB331714EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:24:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 159. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (15) Subject: a useful phrase, but by whom? [2] From: "Nicolas DEVILEZ [531126]" (39) Subject: RE: projects in French --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:55:21 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a useful phrase, but by whom? I've just been at a wonderful conference in Newcastle, "Language Individuation", held in honour of John Burrows. During the conference he argued for the exploratory power of what he called "a multiplicity of weak markers", or perhaps better, "a multiplicity of weak discriminators", rather than one strong discriminator, i.e. that author A wrote novel X rather than author B. Burrows remembers hearing this phrase from someone else, or reading it somewhere, but cannot recall where or by whom. Would anyone here have a clue? It's clear from what may be found online that the idea is found in molecular biology and biochemistry. I would very much like to know of a biologist who makes this sort of generalisation. Any pointers? Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:23:17 +0000 From: "Nicolas DEVILEZ [531126]" Subject: RE: projects in French In-Reply-To: <4E16241C.4040100@mccarty.org.uk> Title: PhD Projects about French Translations of The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. Dear Sir/Madam, My name is Nicolas Devilez and I'm a PhD student in the University of Mons, Belgium. I'm currently working on the following topic: "Diachronic comparison of the French translations of M.G. Lewis's The Monk". I would like to know if other PhD students are working on a similar project at the moment. Please contact me at: devilez.nicolas(a)hotmail.com if you work on such a project or if you know someone who does. Best regards, Nicolas Devilez _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 23:19:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7979F172F9B; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:19:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40168172F87; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:19:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110711231938.40168172F87@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:19:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.160 multiplicity of weak markers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 160. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? [2] From: Willard McCarty (19) Subject: "weak markers" [3] From: Laval Hunsucker (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:35:27 -0700 From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? Hi folks, Here's a few other origins - Granovetter's strength of weak ties (leading to seven degrees of Kevin Bacon) and the waekness/strength of weak signals (Diana Vaughn in her book on the Challenger disaster, and her earlier work on divorce). Hope this helps, geof Geoffrey C. Bowker Professor and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship Sixth Floor, Information Sciences Building 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260. ph. 412-624-9315 email: gbowker@pitt.edu web: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gbowker On 7/10/2011 1:24 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 159. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Willard McCarty (15) > Subject: a useful phrase, but by whom? > > [2] From: "Nicolas DEVILEZ [531126]" (39) > Subject: RE: projects in French > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:55:21 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: a useful phrase, but by whom? > > I've just been at a wonderful conference in Newcastle, "Language > Individuation", held in honour of John Burrows. During the conference he > argued for the exploratory power of what he called "a multiplicity of > weak markers", or perhaps better, "a multiplicity of weak > discriminators", rather than one strong discriminator, i.e. that author > A wrote novel X rather than author B. Burrows remembers hearing this > phrase from someone else, or reading it somewhere, but cannot recall > where or by whom. Would anyone here have a clue? > > It's clear from what may be found online that the idea is found in molecular > biology and biochemistry. I would very much like to know of a biologist > who makes this sort of generalisation. Any pointers? > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:42:31 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "weak markers" In a private reply to my question about "a multiplicity of weak markers", Joe Raben asks, > Can you go a little further into this? What is the goal of discovering > these weak markers? The goal is to identify authors of works whose authorship is unknown or disputed. But the argument in favour of relying on many weak markers rather than few or one strong one is worth drawing attention to once more. One of the great problems with computational stylistics, I gather, is the demand that statistical tests deliver strong or unambiguous results, i.e. from a single strong indicator of authorship or at most a very few strong ones. But what we observe in the best work is not such results, rather the assembly of many markers none of which is a clear indicator of who wrote the piece in question. The fact that arguments of this form tend to turn up in molecular biology intrigues me because it suggests the possibility of strong analogies to be made between how living systems conduct themselves and how the human kind writes. Comments? Yours, WM --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:42:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? In-Reply-To: <20110710202455.5BB331714EC@woodward.joyent.us> You ask : > I would very much like to know of a biologist who makes > this sort of generalisation. Any pointers? Might it help to have a look at something like : Han-Yu Chuang et al., "A decade of systems biology", in _Annual review of cell and developmental Biology_ 26 (2010), p.721-744 [ which also has 124 references ] ?   - Laval Hunsucker    Breukelen, Nederland   ( *not* a biologist ) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 23:25:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED391720A5; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:25:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB23517209E; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:25:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110711232515.DB23517209E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:25:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.161 a Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 161. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:39:57 +1000 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> I've been thinking about this problem for some time as well, and also wondering whether all the recent hype about "the digital" will turn out to be mainly beneficial or mainly harmful. It is good to see my literature colleagues finally paying attention, but some of them seem to think that theorizing about the nature and import of "the digital" is what's valuable and needed. Unfortunately, some will do this without harming (or mentioning) any facts in the process, and without learning much of anything about the computational tools and processes that are required by "the digital." Some will also go blithely along doing naive work uninformed by 25 years of published research because that research does not appear in the journals they read. As to your list of possible requirements, I agree that none of them quite makes it. That is, you don't need a PhD to be a digital humanist, certainly not in a humanities subject or computer science. It's quite possible to have a degree (or part of one) in any subject and become a digital humanist. You also don't need to work in an academic department. Ask the many excellent digital humanists who work in IT or libraries. If by "works collaboratively," you mean works in a team with other people, I don't think that's necessary either. Many of us have done digital humanities projects without consulting anyone else, let alone collaborating. Finally, I'd actually prefer to have the term reserved for the technically competent, though perhaps not so narrowly as programming languages. Yet, in an intensely collaborative digital humanities project, one of the partners may not quite qualify on this score, and I wouldn't want to exclude them. The problem with the big tent in DH abstract review is a very serious one. Many of us have been surprised and baffled by one or more of our reviews for the conference, and excellent papers are sometimes rejected because of one ignorant reading. The other drawback of the big tent is that many of the conference papers may end up seeming irrelevant to a sizable group of the attendees. In spite of all the problems, however, I think we need to keep the tent big and keep looking for better ways to deal with the problems. On 7/10/2011 8:53 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 153. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:51:41 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the Big Tent hypothesis > > From time to time I run into people who argue in one way or another > that certain kinds of research and/or researchers belong in the digital > humanities and others don't. This might be considered a sign of health, > or at least of conformity to other disciplines (whose gatekeeping > functions tend to be quite robust). It might just be considered what we > call human nature. But it seems to me that for a field that by its own > nature interrelates to all others in the interpretative and documentary > disciplines, excluding people explicitly by type or implicitly by > requiring certain kinds of disciplinary behaviour is counter-productive. > For example, must a person who self-identifies with the digital > humanities conform to any of the following? > > 1. has a PhD (a) in a humanities subject or (b) in computer science; > 2. works in an academic department; > 3. works collaboratively; > 4. is technically competent (e.g. in one or more programming languages); > etc etc > > I can think of colleagues whose work we value who do not conform to any > of the above, or who fail some of these criteria. And so my question: is > there *any* criterion you can think of? If so, what is it? > > Application of related criteria by individual reviewers of papers for > the Digital Humanities conference has caused problems in the past, when > someone whose primary training is in one discipline reads a paper by > someone with a very different background. As Editor of an > interdisciplinary studies journal I frequently encounter difficulties of > this sort. Indeed I have concluded that anyone who writes for a truly > interdisciplinary journal faces quite a problem in satisfying the range > of potential readers: not just all the experts but also those who want a > peek into a subject in which they have not been trained. > > On the other hand I would think that the Big Tent hypothesis (i.e. "come > one, come all") runs into trouble when we try to strengthen the field by > insisting on suitably qualified participants in it. But then, what is > strength? When I first started in the field, then mostly called > "computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over > whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed > and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we > went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? > > What do you think? Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- David L. Hoover, Professor of English, NYU 212-998-8832 https://files.nyu.edu/dh3/public/ Most of her friends had an anxious, haggard look, . . . Basil Ransom wondered who they all were; he had a general idea they were mediums, communists, vegetarians. -- Henry James, The Bostonians (1886) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 11 23:27:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F831720FF; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9B3161720F0; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110711232703.9B3161720F0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.162 a Big Tent (2 of) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 162. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doug Reside (96) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? [2] From: Bob Blair (125) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:43:15 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> It's not so much that I want to keep anyone out of anything, but I would like to imagine that there is a community of people who are programmers who use their skills to pursue their own research questions in the humanities, and it's useful to have a reserved term to describe this bunch so that you can find collaborators and know what conferences to go to. In the first half of the last decade it seemed like a large number of these sorts of scholars had starting calling themselves Digital Humanists. Then (and in the years before under different names) this group of scholars lived on the margins and sat at the geek table--always worried that the tenure committees would let them into the prom (because, in the U.S. anyway, mostly they didn't). Then a bunch of grant money was discovered to be stuck to some gum under the geek table just when times got really tough for the cool kids, and all the cool kids came on over. At first it seemed like things might start to get really good, but then it turned out the cool kids didn't want to talk to the geeks in their own language or about the things they found interesting. So, I think some of the resistance comes from the geeks who feel like saying, "Um, glad you want to sit with us now, but we were actually talking about the best computer vision algorithms to recognize scribal hands, and we'd really like to get back to it if you don't mind." Doug --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 19:28:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> >When I first started in the field, then mostly called >"computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over >whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed >and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we >went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? I doubt whether exclusivity could have resulted in "toughening up" in this field unless "tough" means "limited in scope". There were (and still are, I think) too many potentially valuable backgrounds, skills and points of view that would be rejected by even the coarsest filter. The main factor that makes "big tent" the right policy is the nature of the computational side of the discipline. As revered as academic figure like Donald Knuth and Edsger Dijkstra are, the most rigorous and useful work in computation remains in the realm of creative engineering, where talented individuals can and do make significant contributions without academic credentials. Bob Blair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 23:27:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7648172144; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E4FF172135; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110711232747.3E4FF172135@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.163 job at NUI Galway 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. 25, No. 163. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:39:06 +0100 From: Sean Ryder Subject: Job at NUI Galway Applications are invited for a fixed-term (3-year) appointment as University Fellow (Teaching and Research) in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway, with an expertise in digital humanities. The appointee will teach into the general curriculum of English, but will also play a central role in the development of digital humanities teaching and research at the university. Further details about this and other vacancies in English at NUI Galway may be found at: http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=1580 ---------- Professor Sean Ryder Chair of English School of Humanities NUI Galway Tel +353-91-493009 Fax +353-91-524102 sean.ryder@nuigalway.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 Jul 12 20:17:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98459172F04; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:17:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 67B2F172EED; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:17:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110712201704.67B2F172EED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:17:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 164. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.161 a Big Tent [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (24) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.162 a Big Tent (2 of) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:09:28 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.161 a Big Tent In-Reply-To: <20110711232515.DB23517209E@woodward.joyent.us> Okay, I'll bite. ;-) Some quick points by way of reply to recent posts, in no particular order: Did the halcyon days when the propeller heads sat around the whiteboard sketching algorithms far from the maddening jabber of the black turtleneck crowd ever *really* exist? I'm not so sure that they did. I think we might be projecting our own version of a David Lodge tall tale. I'd like to hear from those who were there, or think they were. Pots of money didn't just "appear" on a table somewhere. They got there as the result of actions and agency, and, as I've argued elsewhere, the messy material particulars that inevitably attend institution building (http://mkirschenbaum.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ade-final.pdf). To think otherwise is to trivialize a lot of the backroom labor (undertaken by a lot of different hands, both with and without premeditation) that has resulted in making DH into what the Chronicle of Higher Ed assures us is the "next big thing." There's undoubtedly bad theorizing, just as there is bad programming. Likewise, there are (it's rumored) those who go about the business of critiquing theory unencumbered by much real contact with it, even as there are those (we know, we know) who blithely do the same for computation and "the digital." So what? If that's really the biggest problem we can set before ourselves I'd say we are a blessed and happy bunch indeed. Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:15:30 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.162 a Big Tent (2 of) In-Reply-To: <20110711232703.9B3161720F0@woodward.joyent.us> In listening to this debate I have wondered from the start: a) why would you even want to restrict membership of 'digital humanities', and b) how would you actually do it? The answer to b) seems to be up to the people offering jobs in the field. If you read enough of these advertisements there seems to be a growing call for doubly-qualified people. But I suspect there's not enough of those to go around. My answer to a) is that I think the great variety in backgrounds you find in DH is actually its strength. Collaboration is encouraged by the inability of acting alone. I find that listening to others with different viewpoints to mine often enriches what I am doing, and (I hope) vice versa. So I don't see why we should restrict membership to any particular class of scholar. Peddling DH projects as new technology (I presume that is what Doug is referring to below) is inevitably part of the process of getting scientific grant money. In Australia at least a digital edition can only be funded by the ARC if it is 'innovative'. >Then a bunch of grant money was discovered to be stuck to some gum >under the geek table just when times got really tough for the cool >kids, and all the cool kids came on over. Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology 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 Tue Jul 12 20:18:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33C2172FD8; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:18:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BED93172F9D; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:18:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110712201834.BED93172F9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:18:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.165 jobs (in the plural!) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 165. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Pip Willcox" (24) Subject: EEBO-TCP post advertised [2] From: "Lorna M. Hughes" (27) Subject: PhD studentship in digital humanities at the University of Wales/NLW [3] From: Shawn Day (70) Subject: Digital Humanities Opportunities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:25:50 +0100 From: "Pip Willcox" Subject: EEBO-TCP post advertised In-Reply-To: <4E0B37D4.3030401@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting. EEBO-TCP at Oxford is advertising a post for a digital editor. For more details, please see: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk. Text Encoding Reviewer Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Digital Library, Osney One, Oxford Grade 7: £29,099 - £35,788 p.a. The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) is seeking a Text Encoding Reviewer to carry out quality assurance of electronic texts created from digital image files of early printed books. You must be educated to degree level, be IT literate, have excellent proofreading skills, a demonstrable interest in the literature and history of the period 1473-1700, and an awareness of the issues involved in the mark-up of electronic texts. Some knowledge of XML and experience of XML editing software is desirable. Only applications received before midday on Wednesday 3 August 2011 can be considered. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 16 August 2011. You will be required to upload a supporting statement as part of your online application. Pip Willcox Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services | University of Oxford Osney One, Oxford OX2 0EW e: pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk | t: +44 (0) 1865 280026 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:50:30 +0100 From: "Lorna M. Hughes" Subject: PhD studentship in digital humanities at the University of Wales/NLW In-Reply-To: <4E0B37D4.3030401@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Dear Humanists, The deadline for applications for the PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Wales has been extended to Monday 18th July. The studentship is offered in conjunction with the National Library of Wales Research Programme in Digital Collections. Both are based in Aberystwyth, and successful applicants will join a community of research postgraduates working on the digital humanities. Applications can be based on research around any of the digital collections of Wales (www.llgc.org.uk). Applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Lorna Hughes (lorna.hughes@llgc.org) for more information. An application pack is available at: http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/CentreforAdvancedWelshCelticStudies/PostgraduateStudy/PostgraduateStudy.aspx best, Lorna -- Professor Lorna M. Hughes University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Lorna.Hughes@llgc.org.uk Ffôn / Phone 01970 632 499 http://www.llgc.org.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:18:38 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Digital Humanities Opportunities In-Reply-To: <4E0B37D4.3030401@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Position 1: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is looking for someone do be our Research Manager. Please do not let the title of the job confuse you, this is intended to be an alt-ac post, it's just that this grade of post has to be described as a Senior Research Associate. It should be ideal for someone who would like to oversee the day to day running of UCLDH's research and help us plan, cost and write new research bids and maintain and enlarge our network of contacts within and outside UCL. Full details of the post are at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACW365/senior-research-associate/. Please feel free to email me with informal enquiries. Claire -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD Director: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Positions 2 & 3: 1.2. Two posts at Strathclyde https://soolin.mis.strath.ac.uk/vacancies/control/vacancyMenu i) One year lectureship : Experience of teaching and examining at post-graduate level, and research or teaching interests in one or more of the following: Literary Linguistics; Digital Humanities; Renaissance Studies; or Experimental Literature, are highly desirable. CLOSING DATE 29 July 2011. Further particulars at: http://www.mis.strath.ac.uk/Personnel/open/592011.htm ii) One year RA post -A Research Assistant is sought to work with Dr Jonathan Hope on a major digital humanities project ‘Visualizing English Print from c. 1470 to 1800’ funded by the Mellon Foundation and undertaken in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC). This is an exciting opportunity to join a major international collaborative project seeking to establish tools and protocols which we believe will set the agenda for humanities study over the next ten years. Educated to a minimum of 2:1 Honours Degree in a relevant subject, you will have experience in one or more of the following areas: computational linguistics; corpus linguistics, linguistics, computing; and/or pre-1800 literature. You will have an ability to plan and organise your own workload to meet strict deadlines, with minimum supervision, and you will be able to work independently or as part of a team. You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex information in an accessible way to a range of audiences and you will have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to listen, engage and persuade others. Applicants must be available to start work in early September 2011, and must be prepared to travel to Wisconsin for training and project planning. A relevant PhD and specialised experience in computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, or historical sociolinguistics is highly desirable, as is programming ability and an interest in the creation of metadata or semantic tagging. Closing date: 29 July 2011; Further particulars at: http://www.mis.strath.ac.uk/Personnel/open/r392011.htm --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: 00 353 1 2342441 --- Mob: 353 083 002 4264 --- s.day@ria.ie (mailto:s.day@ria.ie) --- http://dho.ie (http://dho.ie/) --- DHO:Discovery, our new website to discover and explore Irish cultural artefacts is now online at http://discovery.dho.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 Jul 12 20:21:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496D717206E; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:21:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C004172063; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:20:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110712202059.0C004172063@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.166 events: epigraphy; database design; translation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 166. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Венцислав_Жечев_(Ven (67) Subject: First CfP: Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011) 'Bringing MT tothe User: Research Meets Translators' [2] From: Markus_Krötzsch (127) Subject: PODS 2012: database principles + new multi-disciplinary topics [3] From: "Tupman, Charlotte" (39) Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] EpiDoc Training Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:32:30 +0200 From: "Венцислав_Жечев_(Ven Subject: First CfP: Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011) 'Bringing MT tothe User: Research Meets Translators' CALL FOR PAPERS “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators” Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 The EuroMatrixPlus Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu), the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) (http://cngl.ie), the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT, European Commission) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) and Autodesk (http://www.autodesk.ch) are co-organising the Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011), entitled “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators”. The JEC 2011 workshop will be hosted by the Directorate General for Translation (DGT) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) in Luxembourg on October 14th, 2011. In keeping with previous JECs, the format of the workshop is highly interactive with research paper presentations, invited talks and a panel discussion. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free (on the Web) or for a fee and MT technologies are making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries as well as large public and administrative organisations dealing with multi-lingual content. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of (professional) translators are post-editing TM/MT output. MT is a reality for internet users accessing and gisting content which is not available in their native language. At the same time, there has been a degree of disconnect between mainstream academic research and conferences on MT, often (and rightly so) focusing on algorithms to improve translation quality, and many of the important practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation workflows, with human translators and users in general. Objectives: JEC 2011 brings together translators, users, academic and industrial MT researchers and developers to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings and applications involving MT, but currently under-represented in research circles. Call for Research Papers: We solicit full research papers with industry, academic and/or user background to highlight real-world issues that need to be tackled by new research and recent advancements that improve translation quality, as well as novel and successful methods for the integration of machine translation with translation memories, localisation workflows, human translators and users. Papers should present clearly identifiable problem statements, research methodologies, measurable outcomes and evaluation. Papers are reviewed anonymously. Papers should follow the submission guidelines listed on the workshop website (http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Call_for_Papers.html), with the maximum length being 10 pages in A4 format, including references. Please, do not include your name in the paper text and avoid overt self-references to facilitate the blind review process. If a paper is accepted, at least one author will have to register for JEC 2011 and travel to Luxembourg to present the paper. Workshop proceedings will be made available in hard-copy by DGT, and will be available for download on the JEC 2011 website. Publication of selected revised and expanded papers from JEC 2010 and JEC 2011 in journal or book form is currently under negotiation. Topics include but are not limited to: • Human Factors and MT • Introducing MT into large organisations • MT and language technologies for SMEs • MT/TM in Localisation/Translation and Content Management Workflows • MT/TM Combinations • Post-Editing Support for MT • MT and Monolingual Post-Editing • Smart Learning from Post-Edits • Interactive MT • MT Confidence Scores and Post-Editing Effort • Training Data for MT: Size, Domain and Quality • Data Cleanup and Preparation for MT • Meta-Data Mark-Up/Annotation and MT • Terminology and MT • Interoperability and Localisation/Translation Workflows • Standards and Localisation/Translation Workflows • MT Evaluation • Costing/Pricing MT • MT for Free/for a Fee • Rule-Based, Statistical and Hybrid MT • Linguistic resources for MT • Computing Resources for MT • MT in the Cloud • MT and the Crowd • MT, Games, Video and TV Localisation • (Machine) Translation in Context • Social Aspects of (Machine) Translation: Access to Information as a Human Right Deadlines (all 23:59 GMT -11): 15th August: Submission deadline for papers 12th September: Announcement for submitted papers 30th September: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers 14th October: Workshop takes place at DGT in Luxembourg Workshop Chair: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Workshop Senior PC: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Andreas Eisele (DGT) Philipp Koehn (Univ. of Edinburgh) Josef van Genabith, Declan Groves (CNGL) Program Committee: Submitted papers will be reviewed by a joint industry–academia committee. Industry members: Pedro L. Diez-Orzas (Linguaserve), Tony O’Dowd (Xcelerator), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Andreas Eisele (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Will Lewis (Microsoft), Yanjun Ma (Baidu), Spyridon Pilos (DGT of the EC), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Academic members: Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Jinhua Du (Xi’ian Univ. of Technology), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Declan Groves (CNGL), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal), Alon Lavie (CMU), Ruslan Mitkov (RIILP, UK), Lucia Specia (RIILP, UK), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), John Tinsley (CNGL, PLuTO), Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany), David Vilar (DFKI, Germany), Martin Volk (UZH, Switzerland) For inquiries please contact Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 For information about the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:11:24 +0100 From: Markus_Krötzsch Subject: PODS 2012: database principles + new multi-disciplinary topics For 2012, PODS (the 31st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Databases) will invite papers on five multi-disciplinary topic areas that might be of special interest to this list. Of course, foundational database research remains the core topic of the symposium. Submission is in November 2011. Below is the preliminary call for papers. Apologies for cross-posting. == PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS == 31st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS (PODS 2012) May 21-May 23 2012, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA http://www.sigmod.org/2012/ The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of database systems. For the 31st edition, original research papers providing new insights in the specification, design, or implementation of data-management tools are called for. Topics of Interest Topics that fit the interests of the symposium include the following (as they pertain to databases): * languages for semi-structured data; search query languages; * distributed and parallel aspects of databases; * dynamic aspects of databases; * incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty in databases; * schema and query extraction; data integration; data exchange; * provenance; workflows; metadata management; meta-querying; * data mining and machine learning techniques for databases; * constraints; privacy and security; Web services; * automatic verification of database-driven systems; * model theory, logics, algebras and computational complexity; * data modeling; data structures and algorithms for data management; * design, semantics, and optimization of query and database languages; * domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text). In addition, we especially welcome papers addressing *emerging database environments and applications*. An External Review Committee will assist the Core PC (listed further below) in reviewing papers in the following multi-disciplinary areas of particular interest to this edition of PODS. -- Querying and Mining of Unstructured Data: Anhai Doan (Kosmix & U. Wisconsin), Aristides Gionis (Yahoo! Labs), Djoerd Hiemstra (Twente), Stefano Leonardi (University of Rome La Sapienza), Evimaria Terzi (Boston University) -- Web Services, Web Programming and Data-Centric Workflow: Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven), Anders Møller (Aarhus), Farouk Toumani (ISIMA), David Walker (Princeton), Karsten Wolf (Rostock) -- Learning of Data Models and Queries: Deepak Agarwal (Yahoo! Labs), James Cussens (York U.), Amol Deshpande (U. Maryland), Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, U. Bonn) -- Cloud Computing and Next-generation Distributed Query Processing: Shivnath Babu (Duke), Phillip Gibbons (Intel Labs), Monica Lam (Stanford), Boon Thau Loo (U. Penn), Volker Markl (TU Berlin) -- Semantic, Linked, Networked, and Crowdsourced Data: Panos Ipeirotis (NYU), David Karger (MIT), Carsten Lutz (Bremen), Boris Motik (Oxford) Important Dates: Abstract submission: 20 November 2011 Manuscript submission: 27 November 2011 Notification: 15 February 2012 Submission Guidelines Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, including bibliography, using reasonable page layout and font size of at least 9pt (note that the SIGMOD style file does not have to be followed). Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the PC. Papers longer than twelve pages (excluding the appendix) or in font size smaller than 9pt risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The submission process will be through the website. Note that, unlike the SIGMOD conference, PODS does not use double-blind reviewing, and therefore PODS submissions should be eponymous (i.e., the names and affiliations of authors should be listed on the paper). The results must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, including the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Authors of an accepted paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to present it at the conference. Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as judged by the PC. Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best submission, as judged by the PC, written exclusively by a student or students. An author is considered as a student if at the time of submission, the author is enrolled in a program at a university or institution leading to a doctoral/master's/bachelor's degree. Organization: PODS General Chair: Maurizio Lenzereni (University of Rome La Sapienza) PODS Program Chair: Michael Benedikt (Oxford) Proceedings & Publicity Chair: Markus Krötzsch (Oxford) Core Program Committee: Mikhail Atallah (Purdue) Toon Calders (Eindhoven) Diego Calvanese (Free U. Bolzano) James Cheney (Edinburgh) Graham Cormode (AT&T Labs) Alin Deutsch (UC San Diego) Gianluigi Greco (Calabria) T.J. Green (UC Davis) Martin Grohe (HU Berlin) Marc Gyssens (Hasselt) T.S. Jayram (IBM Almaden & IBM India) Daniel Kifer (Penn State) Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz & IBM Almaden) Rasmus Pagh (Copenhagen) Luc Segoufin (INRIA Cachan) Pierre Senellart (Telecom ParisTech) Sophie Tison (Lille) Victor Vianu (UC San Diego) David Woodruff (IBM Almaden) SIGMOD/PODS Webpage: http://www.sigmod.org/2012/ -- Dr. Markus Krötzsch Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom +44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:45:43 +0100 From: "Tupman, Charlotte" Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] EpiDoc Training Workshop EpiDoc Training Workshop 5-8 September 2011 Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London An EpiDoc training workshop will be offered by the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and the Institute for Classical Studies in September this year. The workshop is free of charge and open to all, but spaces are limited and registration as soon as possible is essential. This workshop is an introduction to the use of EpiDoc, an XML schema for the encoding and publication of inscriptions, papyri and other documentary Classical texts. Participants will study the use of EpiDoc markup to record the distinctions expressed by the Leiden Conventions and traditional critical editions, and some of the issues in translating between EpiDoc and the major epigraphic and papyrological databases. They will also be given hands-on experience in the use of the Papyrological Editor tool implemented by the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, which facilitates the authoring EpiDoc XML via a ‘tags-free’ interface. The course is targeted at scholars of epigraphy and papyrology (from advanced graduate students to professors) with an interest and willingness to learn some of the hands-on technical aspects necessary to run a digital project. Knowledge of Greek and/or Latin, the Leiden Conventions and the distinctions expressed by them, and the kinds of data that need to be recorded by philologists and ancient historians, will be assumed. No particular technical expertise is required. Places on the EpiDoc training week are limited so if you are interested in attending the workshop or have any questions, please contact charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk and gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk as soon as possible with a brief statement of qualifications and interest. -- Dr. Charlotte Tupman Research Associate Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7145 www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 13 20:44:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C6D173F11; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:44:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 38297173F07; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:44:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110713204451.38297173F07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:44:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.167 a Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 167. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (30) Subject: what I saw [2] From: John Laudun (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent [3] From: Ernesto Priego (68) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:34:53 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what I saw Ok, I'll bite Matt Kirschenbaum's bite. He's right. What I saw (admittedly rather late, in the mid 1980s) was humanists trecking over to the local computing centre with their curiosities and strange projects, sometimes finding, eventually, sympathetic people, then configured as techies, who had interesting backgrounds and open imaginations. Note that at that time the techies, thus configured, were institutionally disallowed from making first moves. Except for the computer scientists involved, they were service people. I also recall one or two imaginative computer scientists who got involved, but at the time they were held in place by the overpowering gravitational field exerted by their rapidly expanding and very wealthy discipline. Fr Busa's account, in "The Annals of Humanities Computing", CHum 14 (1980): 83-90, has him making the first moves toward the other side in 1949, from northern Italy eventually to Thomas J Watson, Sr.'s office in New York. Watson was of course institutionally allowed to do whatever he wanted, so here's a case of the scholar making the first move. Later IBM became quite active, e.g. in the 1964 conference on Literary Data Processing. The fact that computers were then hulking mainframes that had to live where techies (tenured and otherwise) worked seems to suggest that the natural thing to happen was for scholars to make the pilgrimage and request an audience. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:55:46 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent I fear I have nothing to add to the larger debate, since I probably seem like some newcomer/interloper -- though I pursued my own interests in digital media and in limited forms of computation for years and years without knowing there was such a thing as humanities computing/the digital humanities, but I did want to note my complete indebtedness to Matthew Kirschenbaum for his post. I especially wanted to plussity plus this: > There's undoubtedly bad theorizing, just as there is bad programming. > Likewise, there are (it's rumored) those who go about the business of > critiquing theory unencumbered by much real contact with it, even as > there are those (we know, we know) who blithely do the same for > computation and "the digital." So what? If that's really the biggest > problem we can set before ourselves I'd say we are a blessed and happy > bunch indeed. Matt (And Yung-Hsing Wu says to tell you, Matt, "Hello.") --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:15:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent In-Reply-To: <20110712201704.67B2F172EED@woodward.joyent.us> Hello, Speaking of the 'big tent'... this morning I found out Theodore Roszak died, aged 77. New York Times obituary: http://nyti.ms/pbynXV Maybe now it would be a good time to revisit his classic 'From Satori to Silicon Valley'. Here: http://library.stanford.edu/mac/primary/docs/satori/index.html I suppose many won't call this kind of work 'digital humanities'. I do. Best, Ernesto http://about.me/ernestopriego _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 13 21:01:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2562173447; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:01:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F422F173435; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:01:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110713210135.F422F173435@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:01:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.168 democratizing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 168. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:00:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Democratizing the humanities through DH In-Reply-To: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> Fellow list-followers, When I today ran across the following sentence ( It concerns Gregory Crane, and appears on a Perseus website page, as well as, I see now, in various blurbs for conferences etc. ) : "His current research focuses on "computational humanities" and how this new field can help to democratize information without compromising intellectual rigor." ( and of course mindful at the same time of all of Willard's past ruminations via this list ), I kind of got to wondering : To what extent, and in what way, is democratization a ( the ? ) mission or raison d'être of, or an essential/important aspect of or element in,  the academic field of Digital Humanities ? I'm talking about democratizing the humanities, or perhaps humanities scholarship and research. I confess that I'm not at all sure what GC exactly means by "to democratize information". I apologize in advance if this is a question which has already been posed ( and discussed ? ) here in the past. I had a quick look in the archive but didn't find any such discussion. Any comments on this ?  Thanks. - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 13 21:02:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D706173535; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:02:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 122B6173529; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:02:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110713210240.122B6173529@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:02:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.169 cfp: on Asian culture & globalisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 169. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:25:42 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: "Asian Culture(s) and Globalization" [On querying whether the following cfp for a forthcoming publication was within the scope of Humanist's interests, I was informed that that "because of the journal's aims & scope it is self-understood that matters digital in the humanities are part of the journal's publishing program", and that it is meant to contain some articles relating to the digital humanities. But I point this out not merely to reassure you that Humanist is somewhat selective, rather more to note an instance of digital concerns passing from a prominently advertised feature to an assumption. --WM] Papers are invited for publication in a special issue entitled "Asian Culture(s) and Globalization" -- edited by I-Chun Wang (National Sun Yat-sen U) -- of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb (ISSN 1481-4374). A humanities and social sciences quarterly published since 1999 by Purdue University Press, the journal is peer-reviewed, in full-text, in open-access, and ISI-AHCI, MLA, Scopus, etc., indexed. "Asian Culture(s) and Globalization" is not concerned with East meeting West; rather, it pays attention to aspects of Asian culture(s) in transformation owing to the impact of globalization. During the past thirty years, scholars and critics have noticed the transformation of Asian culture(s), its resistant voices, and the redefinition of local cultures. As the largest and most populous continent, Asia is home to a large number of languages and cultures: Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Pacific Islanders, etc., contributions of cultural products and thought represent a significant part of today's global culture. Authors of the issue discuss redefined regional cultures in the context of globalization in the fields of literature, education, music, urban studies, cinema, gender studies, sociology, history, and related fields in the context of comparative cultural studies. Papers are 6000-7000 words in length and in the MLA parenthetical sources and works cited format (but no footnotes or end notes): for the style guide of the journal consult http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/clcwebstyleguide . Deadline of submissions is 31 May 2012 to I-Chun Wang at icwang@faculty.nsysu.edu.tw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 13 21:03:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012D21735CA; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:03:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D4BA1735BA; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:03:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110713210330.5D4BA1735BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:03:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.170 events: digital history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 170. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:33:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Upcoming conference -- digital history In-Reply-To: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> I don't think that this upcoming event has yet been mentioned on this list ( please excuse me if I'm wrong ), though it will surely be of interest to many persons here, I should imagine : ".hist 2011 – Geschichte im digitalen Wandel" Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hauptgebäude, 14. September 2011 – 15. September 2011 The homepage of the conference is at http://www2.hu-berlin.de/historisches-forschungsnetz/tagung/index.php?conference=hist2011&schedConf=hist11 and there one can find also a link to the conference program, as well as to registration information [ deadline for early booking discount :  14 August ], etc.  Looks most interesting, to me. - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 14 20:06:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8878F17523F; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:06:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8EB1617522F; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:06:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110714200638.8EB1617522F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:06:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.171 a Big Tent & a People's Park X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 171. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Golumbia (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent [2] From: Leif Isaksen (101) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.168 democratizing? [3] From: David Sewell (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] what I saw --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:35:12 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent In-Reply-To: <20110712201704.67B2F172EED@woodward.joyent.us> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:15:30 +1000 > From: Desmond Schmidt > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.162 a Big Tent (2 of) > In-Reply-To: <20110711232703.9B3161720F0@woodward.joyent.us> > > > In listening to this debate I have wondered from the start: > a) why would you even want to restrict membership of 'digital humanities', > and > b) how would you actually do it? > roflol! oh wait. on the off chance that these are serious questions: would you like the 250-word, the 1000-word, the 10000-word, or the novel version? i've got em all. in public i'll offer only the one word version: money (and lots of it) (yeah that's five words) -- David Golumbia dgolumbia@gmail.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:57:26 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.168 democratizing? In-Reply-To: <20110713210135.F422F173435@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Laval I am in no way claiming to represent what Greg may have meant and equally ignorant of the manner in which Willard has ruminated upon the issue in the past but i think it's a really interesting one so wanted to pitch in my two cents/pence: In some ways the question takes us straight back to the Big Tent discussion because it's impossible to ask without pegging out some kind of definition of terms. My view is that Digital Humanities is essentially Humanities Computing extended to include the InterWeb (or, if you will, they stand in a similar relationship to 'ICT' & 'IT' with all the ambiguity and vagueness that implies). 'Democratization' I take in this context to be the deliberate intention to make Humanities materials available to the general public (nationally and globally) as well as an implicit assumption that said public also has a valuable role to play in the Humanities process other than simply giving us the cash which is our inherent birthright. ;-) The distinction is important because I don't think it has historically ever been a role of Humanities Computing to 'democratize' the Humanities, or at least no more than any other branch of the field. Arguably, it is even less concerned with 'democratization' because the technology and skills required are, if anything, even less accessible than a decent reference library and the ability to read. In contrast, Digital Humanities, or at least the Web elements of it, are deeply involved in this issue for the simple reason that the Web really only does two things well - global search and access. This is not to say that Web technologies can't be used for other purposes, but it doesn't tend do them as well or better than other technologies (it's like writing letters on a printing press). The revolutions in commerce, journalism, politics and social interaction are all to do with 'democratization' (i.e. enormous demographic expansions of the sector), not the Web technologies themselves. Of course, just because Web technologies work this way, doesn't mean that we have any obligation to use them or concern ourselves with 'democratization'. i.e. I don't think any ethical position derives from this fact. On the other hand I think it raises some very significant questions for those who _are_ working in this space, namely that if they are not concerned with 'democratization' they are either suffering from massive under-imagination of the possibilities, or using the wrong tools for the job. Or of course they might be just plain terrified of the revolution or being sneered at by elitest peers. Whatever the reason, I think Digital Humanities, for all its pioneering claims, has a long way to go before we start approach the revolutions mentioned above, although the experience of the last decade suggests it can be travelled very quickly under certain circumstances. The question I'd leave us with is this: assuming a 'democratic' revolution does come to the Humanities (a 'Humanities Spring?'), and I think the sensible money has to be on the chance that it will, is it going to be led by the corporations or the academics? Best Leif On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 168. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:00:25 -0700 (PDT) >        From: Laval Hunsucker >        Subject: Democratizing the humanities through DH >        In-Reply-To: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> > > Fellow list-followers, > > When I today ran across the following sentence ( It concerns > Gregory Crane, and appears on a Perseus website page, as > well as, I see now, in various blurbs for conferences etc. ) : > > "His current research focuses on "computational humanities" > and how this new field can help to democratize information > without compromising intellectual rigor." > > ( and of course mindful at the same time of all of Willard's > past ruminations via this list ), I kind of got to wondering : > To what extent, and in what way, is democratization a ( the ? ) > mission or raison d'être of, or an essential/important aspect > of or element in,  the academic field of Digital Humanities ? > I'm talking about democratizing the humanities, or perhaps > humanities scholarship and research. I confess that I'm not > at all sure what GC exactly means by "to democratize > information". > > I apologize in advance if this is a question which has already > been posed ( and discussed ? ) here in the past. I had a quick > look in the archive but didn't find any such discussion. > > Any comments on this ?  Thanks. > > > - Laval Hunsucker >   Breukelen, Nederland > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:08:09 -0400 (EDT) From: David Sewell Subject: Re: [Humanist] what I saw In-Reply-To: <20110713204451.38297173F07@woodward.joyent.us> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Willard McCarty wrote: > Ok, I'll bite Matt Kirschenbaum's bite. He's right. What I saw > (admittedly rather late, in the mid 1980s) was humanists trecking over > to the local computing centre with their curiosities and strange > projects, sometimes finding, eventually, sympathetic people, then configured > as techies, who had interesting backgrounds and open imaginations. Note > that at that time the techies, thus configured, were institutionally > disallowed from making first moves. Except for the computer scientists > involved, they were service people. I would second Willard's observation and note my own indebtedness during the 1980s to professional staff at university computer centers who were imaginative enough to meet curious people from humanities departments more than halfway. For example, in 1980 or '81, staff at the University of California, San Diego, computing center decided they could leverage their new Unix timesharing system by creating a simple menu-driven front-end that would enable administrative staff at the university to use the full array of Unix word processing and typesetting facilities for memos and suchlike. Somebody got the inspired idea of letting graduate students and faculty have accounts so they could use the system for dissertations, papers, and communication. The result was a minor flowering of humanities grad students doing things with Unix that no one had quite expected. I was a grad student in the Literature Department, where the pioneering fellow student who learned about the accounts and evangelized the rest of us was Mary Ann Buckles, who ended up getting hooked by Colossal Cave Adventure (standard on BSD Unix) and becoming the first person to write a dissertation on interactive fiction. For my part, once I discovered the command "cd /" and the online manpages, I was hooked by the operating system, the text processing utilities, and the ability to tinker with NROFF/TROFF macros to format my dissertation just the way I wanted. I was a fairly constant pilgrim to the consulting offices at the computer center, where the Unix consultants seemed to enjoy the novelty of acolytes from a new population and were unfailingly patient and helpful. A few years later I had similar experiences with IT staff at the University of Rochester. I'm sure that folks at lots of other institutions had similar experiences and share my gratitude for the openness of the computer center staffs to new missions. DS -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400314, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA Email: dsewell@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 14 20:07:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88732175290; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:07:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1635C17527C; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:07:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110714200727.1635C17527C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:07:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.172 events: ancient places in 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 172. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:51:05 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 Friday July 15th at 16:30 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Elton Barker (Open University) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton) Mine the GAP: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus ALL WELCOME Due to Google’s digitization programme, the information now available is unprecedented: but what exactly is there, and how can it be used? The Google Ancient Places (GAP) project investigates a means of facilitating the discovery of data that is of interest to scholars working on the ancient world, and experiments with ways of making use of the results. This paper sets out the work on which GAP is based, discusses our approach to finding ancient places in books, and showcases some examples of use, in particular the visualization of places in GoogleMaps alongside the actual text. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 16 23:01:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D4D177C1D; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:01:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E5BBF177C0B; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:01:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110716230149.E5BBF177C0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:01:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.173 job at Oxford 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. 25, No. 173. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:23:13 +0100 From: "Deegan, Marilyn" Subject: job opportunity EEBO-TCP > From: Pip Willcox [mailto:Pip.Willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: 12 July 2011 15:28 Apologies for cross-posting. EEBO-TCP at Oxford is advertising a post for a digital editor. For more details, please see: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk. Text Encoding Reviewer Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Digital Library, Osney One, Oxford Grade 7: =A329,099 - =A335,788 p.a. The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) is seeking a Text Encoding Reviewer to carry out quality assurance of electronic texts created from digital image files of early printed books. You must be educated to degree level, be IT literate, have excellent proofreading skills, a demonstrable interest in the literature and history of the period 1473-1700, and an awareness of the issues involved in the mark-up of electronic texts. Some knowledge of XML and experience of XML editing software is desirable.=20 Only applications received before midday on Wednesday 3 August 2011 can be considered. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 16 August 2011. You will be required to upload a supporting statement as part of your online application. Pip Willcox Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services | University of Oxford Osney One, Oxford OX2 0EW e: pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk | t: +44 (0) 1865 280026 Marilyn Deegan Emeritus Professor Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: marilyn.deegan@kcl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 16 23:03:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28351177C82; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:03:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF50B177C70; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:03:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110716230340.CF50B177C70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:03:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.174 publications: Computability; D-Lib for July/August X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 174. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bonnie Wilson (55) Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine isnow available [2] From: S Barry Cooper (82) Subject: COMPUTABILITY - The Journal of the Association CiE --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:05:51 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine isnow available Greetings: The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, two conference reports, several short pieces in 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 New York Philharmonic Digital Archives web site. The articles include: Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era Article by Michalis Gerolimos, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece and Rania Konsta, Ionian University, Corfu Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator Article by Robert A. Schrier, Syracuse University Building a Sustainable Institutional Repository Article by Chenying Li, Mingjie Han, Chongyang Hong, Yan Wang, Yanqing Xu and Chunning Cheng, China Agricultural University Library Music to My Ears: The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives Article by Cynthia Tobar, City University of New York The conference reports are: Report on the 2011 Inaugural United States Electronic Theses and Dissertations Association (USETDA) Conference Conference Report by James RW MacDonald, University of Northern British Columbia Open Repositories 2011: Community Meet-up in the "Live Music Capital of the World" Conference Report by Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:03:50 +0100 From: S Barry Cooper Subject: COMPUTABILITY - The Journal of the Association CiE COMPUTABILITY The Journal of the Association CiE Now Accepting Submissions! First volume to be published in 2012 as part of the celebrations of the Alan Turing Year http://www.computability.de/journal/ ____________________________ Aims and Scope Computability is the journal of the Association Computability in Europe and it is published by IOS Press in Amsterdam. The journal Computability is a peer reviewed international journal that is devoted to publishing original research of highest quality, which is centered around the topic of computability. The subject is understood from a multidisciplinary perspective, recapturing the spirit of Alan Turing (1912-1954) by linking theoretical and real-world concerns from computer science, mathematics, biology, physics, computational neuroscience, history and the philosophy of computing. Editor-in-Chief Vasco Brattka (Cape Town, South Africa) Managing Editors Paola Bonizzoni (Milan, Italy) S. Barry Cooper (Leeds, UK) Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza, Spain) Editorial Board Samson Abramsky (Oxford, UK) Manindra Agrawal (Kanpur, India) Eric Allender (Piscataway, USA) Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh, USA) Arnold Beckmann (Swansea, UK) Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau, France) Alessandra Carbone (Paris, France) Karine Chemla (Paris, France) Bruno Codenotti (Pisa, Italy) Stephen A. Cook (Toronto, Canada) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, UK) Rodney G. Downey (Wellington, New Zealand) Natasha Jonoska (Tampa, USA) Ulrich Kohlenbach (Darmstadt, Germany) Russell Miller (New York, USA) Andrei Morozov (Novosibirsk, Russia) Prakash Panangaden (Montreal, Canada) Frank Stephan (Singapore) Vlatko Vedral (Oxford, UK) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen, The Netherlands) Ning Zhong (Cincinnati, USA) Submission Guidelines The journal Computability invites submission of full papers of highest quality on all research topics related to computability. Computability accepts only submissions of original research papers that have not been published previously and that are not currently submitted elsewhere. Full versions of papers that have already been published in conference proceedings are eligible only if the conference version is clearly cited and the full version enhances the conference version significantly. Authors are requested to submit PDF manuscripts electronically via the online submission system. Authors can indicate non-binding wishes regarding Editorial Board Members who should handle their submission. Final versions of accepted papers have to be prepared using the journal style file and they need to be submitted together with all source files. Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that they have read and agreed to the terms of the IOS Press Author Copyright Agreement and that all persons listed as authors have given their approval for the submission of the paper. http://www.computability.de/journal/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 18 20:38:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2D317CCF7; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:38:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C774917CCE4; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:38:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110718203812.C774917CCE4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:38:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.175 reading? best work? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 175. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (15) Subject: Pleasures of Reading [2] From: Willard McCarty (18) Subject: best of current? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:28:50 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Pleasures of Reading In-Reply-To: <20110716230340.CF50B177C70@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I wonder if you or the subscribers to Humanist have had a chance to dip into Alan Jacobs's meditation _The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of Distraction_ (Oxford, 2011). He makes some very nuanced and intelligent observations about reading and technological affordances. He devotes a little space to e-readers and comments that the lack of stylus with current models constrains note taking (making if difficult to both underdine or circle text and provide a marginal annotation). I found myself imagining software that translates the affordances of pencil & codex into the combination of cursor and layer (similiar to illustation and digitial imaging software). Would the more consumer savvy subscribers to Humanist have any thoughts about the current state and future of annotation software for e-readers? Francois Lachance http://berneval.blogspot.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:32:39 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: best of current? In-Reply-To: <20110716230340.CF50B177C70@woodward.joyent.us> There are certainly areas of the digital humanities where, as one applicant to our PhD programme recently put it, nothing much has changed in the last many years. Her remark has prompted me to wonder in which areas of our field the most exciting and challenging work is going on now? I don't mean where the smoke and mirrors are to be found -- where wild claims are being made that in sober moments don't hold up to critical inspection. ("Look, I can put on a fox's head and fly through the air to this island!!!!") These are interesting for many reasons, it is true. But I want to know what you think would hold up to to critical inspection from all sides. What should we go to the wall for? Nominations please. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 18 20:41:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CECA17CDFC; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:41:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C91BF17CDED; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:41:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110718204132.C91BF17CDED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:41:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.176 events: libraries; networked 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. 25, No. 176. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Secretariat@isast.org" (146) Subject: First Call of Proposals, 4th QQML2012, Limerick, Ireland [2] From: Arianna Ciula (14) Subject: ESF/COST "Networked Humanities: Art History on the Web" - conference proceedings --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:38:42 +0300 From: "Secretariat@isast.org" Subject: First Call of Proposals, 4th QQML2012, Limerick, Ireland We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2012), 22 - 25 May 2012, Limerick, Ireland. Deadline for Abstract submission October 30, 2011. First Call of Proposals QQML2012 Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2012) at 22 - 25 May 2012, Limerick, Ireland. Since 2009 QQML has provided an excellent framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in every aspect of Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and Research. The 4th QQML2012 was scheduled during the previous 3rd QQML2011 Conference. It was also decided that the 5th QQML 2013 International Conference will be organized in Rome, Italy. QQML2009, QQML2010 and QQML2011 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books. QQML2012 will continue and expand the related topics. Papers are invited for this international conference. The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: Advocacy, networking and influencing: methodologies for building the evidence base in library and information services (LIS) Balanced Scorecard tools in libraries Bibliometrics Change of Libraries and the Managerial Techniques Conceptual and Organizational Perspectives of Knowledge Communication, Copyright and licensing Data mining Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories Development of new metrics Digital archives Digital preservation Digitization Distance learning and the role of the library E-Books E-Learning and the contribution of the libraries, archives and museums E-research E-science Electronic publishing Financial Management for Excellence Human resources management Information and Knowledge Services Information literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and lifelong learning Information retrieval Innovative management Institutional repositories Intercultural management Knowledge Based Systems and their Applications Knowledge management concept and technology, Knowledge mining Libraries and shared services Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century Library management and marketing Library statistics Measuring information literacy effectiveness Metadata creation New means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content Ontologies Open Access and Open Source Operational information systems Performance Measurement and Competitiveness Publishing Models, Processes and Systems Qualitative and Quantitative methodologies Re-engineering change in higher education Resource development policy Scholarly Information and the new communication technologies Semantics Semantics Web Software Strategic management Team building and management Technology in the Communication: an interactive tool for development Technology transfer and Innovation in library management Theoretical models of information media User education Special Sessions - Workshops You may send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretariat@isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the following sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 7,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); d. visual presentations (Pecha kucha). These presentations consist of exactly 20 slides, each of which is displayed for 20 seconds. Total presentation time is precisely 6 minutes 40 seconds and so it is important to use the transition feature in PowerPoint to time your presentation exactly. In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/importantdates.html http://www.isast.org/importantdates.html The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s). Student submissions The Conference offers Postgraduate students and PhD Candidates a Competition opportunity. Students who submit to the conference could take part to the competition, by submitting only one paper to the competition. Students who enter to the competition have to participate to the conference and register before. The papers will be judged by a scientific committee on the significance of the research theme, the research methodology, the description of the results and the organization of the presentation. Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2012 Conference and Student Research Competition to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretariat@isast.org On behalf of the Conference Committee Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com Jerald Cavanagh BSc Econ, MSc, MA, Local Committee Co-Chair Institute Librarian Limerick Institute of Technology Limerick, Rep of Ireland e-Mail: jerald.cavanagh@lit.ie Padraig Kirby BA (Hons) HdipLIS, Local Committee Co-Chair Acting Senior Library Assistant The Library Limerick Institute of Technology Moylish Park Limerick, Republic of Ireland Padraig.Kirby@lit.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:25:22 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF/COST "Networked Humanities: Art History on the Web" -conference proceedings Dear all, selected proceedings of the ESF/COST high level research conference "Networked Humanities: Art History on the Web conference" are now published at http://www.kunstgeschichte-ejournal.net/view/event/Networked_Humanities.html Best regards, Arianna == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer for the Humanities European Science Foundation 1 quai Lezay Marnésia BP 90015 F-67080 Strasbourg France Email: aciula@esf.org Tel: +33 (0) 388767104 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 19 20:30:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FE01814AB; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:30:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27940181494; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:30:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110719203011.27940181494@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:30:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.177 musical improvisation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 177. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:20:43 +0000 From: Anna Jordanous Subject: Survey on musical improvisation computer systems Hello all, As part of my research into musical improvisation computer systems, I am running a short (15-25 mins) online survey and would much appreciate your input. The survey involves listening to music produced by some of these systems: 12 x 30-second extracts. You will be asked how typical and valuable you think these extracts are as examples of musical improvisation, based on their _musical_content_, rather than the recording/sound quality, or their computer-generated origins. Here is the link: http://edu.surveygizmo.com/s3/592582/Computer-systems-that-improvise-music I do hope that you will be able to help me with this research. If you have any comments or questions, do feel free to get in touch with me. Thank you in advance. Regards, Anna PS Apologies for any cross-posting. Please pass this message onto other people if you feel they would be interested in taking part in the survey. ------ Anna Jordanous Doctoral Researcher: "Evaluating Computational Creativity" and Associate Tutor School of Informatics University of Sussex http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/akj20 +44 1273 872589 a.k.jordanous@sussex.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 19 20:31:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B11518152F; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:31:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 90ACB18151F; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:31:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110719203107.90ACB18151F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:31:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.178 a doctoral rite of passage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 178. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:03:21 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: A rite of passage to an intellectual adulthood Many here, I think, will find the following worth the click and time spent reading: Damon Horowitz, "From Technologist to Philosopher: Why you should quit your technology job and get a PhD in the humanities", Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 July 2011, http://chronicle.com/article/From-Technologist-to/128231/. The link was sent to me by someone who wants to do exactly what Horowitz describes. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 23 22:24:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DA5186F91; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:24:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 38594186F81; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:24:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723222444.38594186F81@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:24:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.179 rite of passage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 179. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: { brad brace } (58) Subject: Future of the Humanities [2] From: Alan Corre (7) Subject: A rite of passage to an intellectual adulthood --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:48:21 -0700 (PDT) From: { brad brace } Subject: Future of the Humanities In-Reply-To: <4E2554910200003C0001AEE6@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> buy-now, it's an obviously exclusive, pointedly calculated, dismal, tired and insular discussion that somehow sadly shuffles "the deadly futures" of increasingly indebted/desperate privileged artworld acolytes who are compelled to repay by recycling received collegial/corporate diatribes... not unlike treacherously asking interrelated corrupt institutions such as illegitimate States whether they have any future: who will continue to profit and at what repercussive-peril for the populace (?) and what can it now mean to cling to the bandied, hollowed refrain of "we the people..." /:b ============= PROXY Gallery http://bit.ly/proxygallery global islands project: http://bbrace.net/id.html "We fill the craters left by the bombs And once again we sing And once again we sow Because life never surrenders." -- anonymous Vietnamese poem "Nothing can be said about the sea." -- Mr Selvam, Akkrapattai, India 2004 "... for every star-driven enterprise there are corollary benefits for those who support it and keep their mouths shut." -- John Young, NYC 2010 "Shikata ga nai -- There's nothing we can do about it." -- Japanese tsunami survivors, 2011 { brad brace } <<<<< bbrace@eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- --- http://bradbrace.net/undisclosed.html --- . 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SKYPE | bbbrace | registered linux user #323978 ~> I am not a victim coercion is natural I am a messenger freedom is artifical /:b --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:13:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: A rite of passage to an intellectual adulthood In-Reply-To: <275103570.71137.1311119551427.JavaMail.root@mail11.pantherlink.uwm.edu> This article in praise of higher studies in the Humanities is well-written and interesting, but one must bear in mind that the author had already rendered himself comfortably off by means of technology before he indulged his taste for the humanities. The problem with getting a Ph.D in a humanities subject these days, even from a prestigious university, is: what do you do with it when you have it? The chances of landing a university job are quite remote, and so many colleges these days are offering few tenure-track positions, but prefer to offer short-term jobs which carry little security or opportunities. You could, of course, go on to study to be a physician--medical schools are said to favor candidates with humanistic degrees--but consider the enormous length of the total study time for Ph.D, M.D., and being saddled with a huge debt, followed by an honorable profession that offers rather modest financial rewards these days. When I get my accounting from my health insurance company, I am often shocked at how little they pay the doctors who do such wonderful things for me and my wife. I got a Ph.D from Penn in Linguistics in 1963 after thrilling studies with Zellig Harris, an outstanding and self-effacing genius, who is only just beginning to be recognized. (MIT Press just published a wonderful study of him by Robert Barsky. Warmly recommended.) At that time I was promptly offered a job in Hebrew Studies, which I followed happily for 30 years until I retired. After I accepted the position, I was offered an interview at Western Reserve which probably would have taken my career on a different track, but I turned down the interview, because I was already committed. How many new Ph.Ds would love an experience like that today! But unfortunately it rarely happens. There are no easy answers to this problem. But I do deplore the tendency of universities to offer short-term dead-end jobs to well qualified candidates. Our civilization deserves better. Alan D. Corré Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 22:27:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129F8186035; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:27:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 56CAC186026; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:27:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723222737.56CAC186026@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:27:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.180 jobs at Bates, Washington X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 180. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Hanrahan (27) Subject: Job Posting: Manager of Humanities Computing (Bates College) [2] From: Shawn Day ( ) Subject: Fwd: DH Job at Washington U in St Louis --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:07:14 -0400 From: Michael Hanrahan Subject: Job Posting: Manager of Humanities Computing (Bates College) Bates College seeks a Manager of Humanities Computing. The successful candidate will consult and collaborate with faculty in the development and support of sustainable curricular and research projects based on an informed understanding of current and emerging technologies appropriate to the humanities. As a member of the Curricular and Research Computing group, the Manager of Humanities Computing will contribute to the provision of technology services, user support, and computing resources to meet the academic needs of the faculty and students at Bates. Duties will include the oversight and management a faculty computing facility dedicated to research and development in the digital humanities, with particular attention to interdisciplinary studies and non-English languages and literatures. Qualifications include substantive post-graduate experience in a humanities discipline, experience using technology in teaching and scholarship (in a non-English or historical language or literature especially desirable), and a keen understanding of current projects and trends in the digital humanities. We invite applications for this position from qualified persons who share Bates’ strong commitment to the liberal arts, diversity and nondiscrimination. For a full position description and to apply, visit: http://goo.gl/wmylu Bates does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, marital or parental status, age, or disability, in the recruitment and admission of its students, in the administration of its educational policies and programs, or in the recruitment and employment of its faculty and staff. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:13:43 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Fwd: DH Job at Washington U in St Louis Dear List, I wanted to draw your attention to a job opening in a Digital Humanities center at Washington U in St Louis. The job's the assistant director, & details are at: http://bit.ly/asst-dir-hdw TEI experience is a highly valued credential. Please feel free to pass along, & to direct any questions my way (it's my old gig). Thanks, Perry -- Perry Trolard Assistant Director Humanities Digital Workshop Arts & Sciences Computing http://hdw.artsci.wustl.edu Washington University in Saint Louis Campus Box 1160 One Brookings Drive Saint Louis MO 63130 (314) 935-8806 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 22:30:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE891860C8; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:30:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A87BA1860C0; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:30:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723223001.A87BA1860C0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:30:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.181 publications: Marx in communcations; reinventing history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 181. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Noiret, Serge" (58) Subject: Historians and Informatics. Reinventing a Profession [2] From: Christian Fuchs (191) Subject: [Catac] CfP: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory andResearch for Critical Communication Studies Today --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:32:21 -0700 From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: Historians and Informatics. Reinventing a Profession Dear all, Just to inform digital historians and humanists about the recent publication by the French School in Rome: Les historiens et l'informatique. Un métier à réinventer, Essays collected by Jean-Philippe Genet and Andrea Zorzi, Rome: Ecole Française de Rome, 2011, (Collection de l'Ecole Française de Rome, 444), ISBN : 978-2-7283-0904-7, (Actes du Congrès ATHIS VII organisé par L'Ecole française de Rome avec le concours de l'ANR, Rome, 4-6 décembre 2008), see http://www.publications.efrome.it/opencms/opencms/menu/novita/index.html?locale=it. Essays are in French and Italian. Full index of the book included to this email. Best regards Serge Noiret ----------------------------------------------------------------- History Information Specialist, (Ph.D.) The Library - European University Institute Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9 50014 SAN DOMENICO (FI) - Italy Tel.: +39-0554685-348 ~ Fax +39-0554685-283 [serge.noiret@eui.eu] - Skype: sese57 CV: http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Staff/Noiret/noiret.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you use the EUI History Department's portal EHPS ? ----- TABLE DES MATIÈRES Pages Jean-Philippe GENET, Avant-propos . VII-IX Jean-Philippe GENET, Introduction . 1-9 Anna Maria TAMMARO, Bibliografia digitale co-laboratorio : verso l’infrastruttura globale per gli studi umanistici . 11-27 Gino RONCAGLIA, e-Book ed ipertesti : un incontro possibile? . 29-43 Stefanio VITALI, Vent’anni dopo : come il computer e la rete hanno cambiato gli archivi. Un bilancio critico . 45-71 Michele ANSANI e Antonella GHIGNOLI, Testi digitali : nuovi media e documenti medievali . 73-86 Pierre BAUDUIN et Catherine JACQUEMARD, Les pratiques de l’édition en ligne : expériences et questionnement. 87-108 Rolando MINUTI, Insegnare storia al tempo del web 2.0 : considerazioni su esperienze e problemi aperti . 109-123 Paul BERTRAND et Christophe JACOBS, «Digital Humanities » et critique historique documentaire : «digital» ou «critical turn»? . 125-139 Christine DUCOURTIEUX et Marc SMITH, L’expérience de Ménestrel : douze ans dans l’internet médiéval . 141-156 Aude MAIREY, Quelles perspectives pour la textométrie des états de langues passés? . 157-170 Julien ALERINI et Stéphane LAMASSÉ , Données et statistiques : l’avenir du travail en ligne pour l’historien . 171-187 François GILIGNY, Informatique et archéologie : une révolution tranquille? . 189-198 Jean-Luc ARNAUD, Nouvelles méthodes, nouveaux usages de la cartographie et de l’analyse spatiale en histoire. 199-220 350 TABLE DES MATIÈRES Pages Margherita AZZARI, Geographic Information Systems and Science. Stato dell’arte, sfide future . 221-234 Serge NOIRET, Y a-t-il une histoire numérique 2.0? . 235-288 Philippe RYGIEL, De quoi le web est-il l’archive? . 289-308 Jean-Michel DALLE, Internet est-il un aléthiomètre? . 309-318 Andrea ZORZI, Conclusioni: fare storia 2.0 . 319-330 Résumés des articles . 331-337 Index . 339-347 Table des matières . 349-350 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:49:47 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: CfP: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today Marx is Back: The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today 
 Call for Papers for a Special Issue of tripleC – Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society.
 Edited by Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco

 http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/CfP_Marx_tripleC.pdf For inquiries, please contact the two editors. In light of the global capitalist crisis, there is renewed interest in Karl Marx’s works and in concepts like class, exploitation and surplus value. Slavoj Žižek argues that the antagonisms of contemporary capitalism in the context of the ecological crisis, the massive expansion of intellectual property, biogenetics, new forms of apartheid and growing world poverty show that we still need the Marxian notion of class. He concludes that there is an urgent need to renew Marxism and to defend its lost causes in order to render problematic capitalism as the only alternative (Žižek 2008, 6) and the new forms of a soft capitalism that promise, and in its rhetoric makes use of, ideals like participation, self-organization, and co-operation, without realizing them. Žižek (2010, chapter 3) argues that the global capitalistcrisis clearly demonstrates the need to return to the critique of political economy. Göran Therborn suggests that the “new constellations of power and new possibilities of resistance” in the 21st century require retaining the “Marxian idea that human emancipation from exploitation, oppression, discrimination and the inevitable linkage between privilege and misery can only come from struggle by the exploited and disadvantaged themselves” (Therborn 2008, 61). Eric Hobsbawm (2011, 12f) insists that for understanding the global dimension of contemporary capitalism, its contradictions and crises, and the persistence of socio-economic inequality, we “must ask Marx’s questions” (13). 

 This special issue will publish articles that address the importance of Karl Marx’s works for Critical Media and Communication Studies, what it means to ask Marx’s questions in 21st century informational capitalism, how Marxian theory can be used for critically analyzing and transforming media and communication today, and what the implications of the revival of the interest in Marx are for the field of Media and Communication Studies. 
 Questions that can be explored in contributions include, but are not limited to:

 * What is Marxist Media and Communication Studies? Why is it needed today? What are the main assumptions, legacies, tasks, methods and categories of Marxist Media and Communication Studies and how do they relate to Karl Marx’s theory? What are the different types of Marxist Media/Communication Studies, how do they differ, what are their commonalities?
 * What is the role of Karl Marx’s theory in different fields, subfields and approaches of Media and Communication Studies? How have the role, status, and importance of Marx’s theory for Media and Communication Studies evolved historically, especially since the 1960s? * In addition to his work as a theorist and activist, Marx was a practicing journalist throughout his career. What can we learn from his journalism about the practice of journalism today, about journalism theory, journalism education and alternative media?
* What have been the structural conditions, limits and problems for conducting Marxian-inspired Media and Communication Research and for carrying out university teaching in the era of neoliberalism? What are actual or potential effects of the new capitalist crisis on these conditions?

* What is the relevance of Marxian thinking in an age of capitalist crisis for analyzing the role of media and communication in society?
 * How can the Marxian notions of class, class struggle, surplus value, exploitation, commodity/commodification, alienation, globalization, labour, capitalism, militarism and war, ideology/ideology critique, fetishism, and communism best be used for analyzing, transforming and criticizing the role of media, knowledge production and communication in contemporary capitalism?
 * How are media, communication, and information addressed in Marx’s work? * What are commonalities and differences between contemporary approaches in the interpretation of Marx’s analyses of media, communication, knowledge, knowledge labour and technology?
 * What is the role of dialectical philosophy and dialectical analysis as epistemological and methodological tools for Marxian-inspired Media and Communication Studies?
 * What were central assumptions of Marx about media, communication, information, knowledge production, culture and how can these insights be used today for the critical analysis of capitalism? * What is the relevance of Marx’s work for an understanding of social media?
 * Which of Marx’s works can best be used today to theorize media and communication? Why and how? 
* Terry Eagleton (2011) demonstrates that the 10 most common held prejudices against Marx are wrong. What prejudices against Marx can be found in Media and Communication Studies today? What have been the consequences of such prejudices? How can they best be contested? Are there continuities and/or discontinuities of prejudices against Marx in light of the new capitalist crisis? 
All contributions shall genuinely deal with Karl Marx’s original works and discuss their relevance for contemporary Critical Media/Communication Studies.
 Eagleton Terry. 2011. Why Marx was right. London: Yale University Press. Hobsbawm, Eric. 2011. How to change the world. Marx and Marxism 1840-2011. London: Little, Brown. Therborn, Göran. 2008. From Marxism to post-Marxism? London: Verso. Žižek, Slavoj. 2008. In defense of lost causes. London: Verso. Žižek, Slavoj. 2010. Living in the end times. London: Verso. 
 Editors 

Christian Fuchs is chair professor for Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University’s Department of Informatics and Media. He is editor of the journal tripleC – Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. His areas of interest are: Critical Theory, Social Theory, Media & Society, Critical Political Economy of Media/Communication, Critical Information Society Studies, Critical Internet Studies. He is author of the books “Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies” (Routledge 2011) and “Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age” (Routledge 2008, paperback 2011). He is co-editor of the collected volume “The Internet and Surveillance. The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media” (Routledge 2011, together with Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval). He is currently writing a book presenting a critical theory of social media. http://fuchs.uti.at 

 Vincent Mosco is professor emeritus of sociology at Queen's University and formerly Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society. Dr. Mosco is the author of numerous books on communication, technology, and society. His most recent include Getting the Message: Communications Workers and Global Value Chains (co-edited with Catherine McKercher and Ursula Huws, Merlin, 2010), The Political Economy of Communication, second edition (Sage, 2009), The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite (co-authored with Catherine McKercher, Lexington Books, 2008), Knowledge Workers in the Information Society (co-edited with Catherine McKercher, Lexington Books, 2007), and The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004). He is currently writing a book on the relevance of Karl Marx for communication research today.

 Publication Schedule and Submission

 Structured Abstracts for potential contributions shall be submitted to both editors (christian.fuchs@im.uu.se, moscov@mac.com) per e-mail until September 30th, 2011 (submission deadline). The authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to write full papers that are due five months after the feedback from the editors. Full papers must then be submitted to tripleC. Please do not instantly submit full papers, but only structured abstracts to the editors.
The abstracts should have a maximum of 1 200 words and should be structured by dealing separately with each of the following five dimensions: 
 1) Purpose and main questions of the paper
 2) Description of the way taken for answering the posed questions
 3) Relevance of the topic in relation to the CfP 
4) Main expected outcomes and new insights of the paper
 5) Contribution to the engagement with Marx’s works and to Marxian-inspired Media and Communication Studies

 Journal 

tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, http://www.triple-c.se 

 Focus and Scope: Critical Media-/Information-/ Communication-/Internet-/Information Society-Studies
 tripleC provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing today. It publishes contributions that focus on critical studies of media, information, communication, culture, digital media, social media and the Internet in the information society. The journal’s focus is especially on critical studies and it asks contributors to reflect about normative, political, ethical and critical implications of their research. 

Indexing: Scopus, EBSCOHost Communication and Mass Media Complete, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 
 Open Access: tripleC is an open access journal that publishes articles online and does not charge authors or readers. It uses a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License) that allows reproduction of published articles for non-commercial purposes (without changes of the content and only with naming the author). Creative Commons publishing poses a viable alternative to commercial academic publishing that is dominated by big corporate publishing houses. -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs@im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se Book "Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies" (Routledge 2011) Book "Internet and Society" (Paperback, Routledge 2010) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 23 22:33:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058131861CF; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:33:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF6B21861C8; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:33:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723223326.BF6B21861C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:33:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.182 linking text & image; DH at Trier X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 182. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Laval Hunsucker (7) Subject: News from Trier [2] From: Dot Porter (33) Subject: Text-Image Linking Environment 1.0 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:54:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: News from Trier In-Reply-To: <20110323061956.4FA0C11EE71@woodward.joyent.us> This "Pressemitteilung", issued today 20 July, entitled "Uni Trier baut ihre Führungsrolle in Digital Humanities aus", seems worth mentioning here : http://www.idw-online.de/pages/de/news433896   - Laval Hunsucker  Antwerpen, België --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:11:22 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Text-Image Linking Environment 1.0 In-Reply-To: The TILE team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0. The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts. See http://mith.info/tile/ for more. This version of TILE includes: - Import/export of TEI P5, and the ability to easily create custom data importers - Improved workflow and accuracy using the Auto Line Recognizer (ALR) - An improved API for plugin developers - Enhancements and bug fixes to TILE’s interface - Detailed release notes for more information A MITH-hosted sandbox version of TILE allows you to test the tool online without installing it on your machine. We encourage users to download a copy to install on their own servers to customize the tool. Users can import their own data into the software, or get started by playing with pre-loaded data of Algernon Swinburne’s poem Anactoria, provided by John Walsh at Indiana University. The development of TILE has been supported by an NEH Preservation and Access Grant, and it is a collaboration between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (Dave Lester, Grant Dickie, Jim Smith, Doug Reside) and Indiana University (Dot Porter, John Walsh, Jeffrey Mudge, Tim Bowman). We’d love to hear how you are using TILE, and what questions or suggestions you have, either in blog comments or on the TILE forums. [Please note that there is a workshop on TILE being offered at the TEI Member's Meeting at the University of Würzburg, Germany, 10-16 October - http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/] -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 23 22:39:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2338F1862CD; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:39:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 80B841862BC; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:39:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723223920.80B841862BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:39:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.183 events: DH support; evolutionary computation; DH and 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. 25, No. 183. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Juan Romero (106) Subject: evoStar 2012 First Call for Papers [2] From: Arno Bosse (51) Subject: Call for Papers: 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities andComputing Science [3] From: Christiane Fritze Subject: 3rd call: SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities, 17/18 Nov2011 Copenhagen --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:09:37 +0200 From: Juan Romero Subject: evoStar 2012 First Call for Papers evostar 2012 First Call for Papers evostar - the main european events on evolutionary computation eurogp, evocop, evobio, evomusart and evoapplications 11-13 april 2011 - malaga, spain http://www.evostar.org ABOUT EVO* The evo* event comprises the premier co-located conferences in the field of Evolutionary Computing: eurogp, evocop, evobio, evomusart and evoapplications. In 2012, the evo* will take place at the Malaga, Spain. Featuring the latest in theoretical and applied research, evo* topics include recent genetic programming challenges, evolutionary and other meta-heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, machine learning and data mining techniques in the biosciences, in numerical optimization, in music and art domains, in image analysis and signal processing, in hardware optimization and in a wide range of applications to scientific, industrial, financial and other real-world problems. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. EVO* EVENTS eurogp 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming evocop 12th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization evobio 10th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology evomusart 1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design evoapplications - European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation evocomnet Track on nature-inspired techniques for telecommunication networks and other parallel and distributed systems evocomplex Track on algorithms and complex systems evofin Track on evolutionary and natural computation in finance and economics evogames Track on bio-inspired algorithms in games evohot Track on bio-inspired heuristics for design automation evoiasp Track on evolutionary computation in image analysis and signal processing evonum Track bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimisation evopar Track on parallel and distributed Infrastructures evorisk Track on computational intelligence for risk management, security and defence applications evostim Track on nature-inspired techniques in scheduling, planning and timetabling evostoc Track on evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic environments evotranslog Track on evolutionary computation in transportation and logistics EVO* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference and attend the conference and present the work. The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format. The submission deadline is 30 november 2011. The other submission details are conference specific. Please follow the instructions and links bellow. eurogp: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/eurogp12/ page limit: 12 pages evocop: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evocop12/ page limit: 12 pages evobio: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evobio12/ evobio is interested in papers in three major areas: 1. Full research articles (maximum 12 pages) 2. System Demonstrations (maximum 8 pages) 3. Short reports (maximum 8 pages) 4. Abstracts (maximum 4 pages) evomusart: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart12/ page limit: 12 pages evoapplications: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps12/ page limit: 10 pages IMPORTANT DATES submission deadline: 30 november 2011 notification to authors: 14 january 2012 camera-ready deadline: 5 february 2012 evo* event: 11-13 april 2012 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION evostar website: http://www.evostar.org evo* coordinator jennifer willies local chair mario giacobini publicity chair penousal machado --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:09:45 +0200 From: Arno Bosse Subject: Call for Papers: 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computing Science Dear colleagues, I'd like to draw your attention to the Call for Papers for the 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://chicagocolloquium.org) which will be held on November 19-21 at Loyola University Chicago. The deadline for submissions is September 15th, 2011. The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. Here is a brief look at the three most recent conferences in the DHCS series, which celebrates its sixth year in 2011: -- DHCS 2008 (University of Chicago) focused on “Making Sense” - an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition from the digital to the analog. -- DHCS 2009 (IIT) focused on computational methods in digital humanities, including computational stylistics, text analytics, and visualization. -- DHCS 2010 (Northwestern) focused on “Working with Digital Data: Collaborate, Curate, Analyze, Annotate.” With broad agency support for and continued cross-disciplinary interest in “digging into data” as well as cyberinfrastructure and collaboration, this year’s DHCS will continue to focus on these and related topics of interest to the community, with a formal colloquium theme to be unveiled as the program is finalized. We invite submissions from scholars, researchers, practitioners (independent scholars and industry), librarians, technologists, and students, on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. This year’s DHCS is sponsored by Loyola University Chicago (Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities and College of Arts and Sciences), University of Chicago (Humanities Division, Computation Institute, Information Technology Services, and the University Library), Northwestern University, and Illinois Institute of Technology (College of Sciences and Letters). For links to past programs of colloquia publications, please visit: http://chicagocolloquium.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:49:47 +0200 From: Christiane Fritze Subject: 3rd call: SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities, 17/18 Nov2011 Copenhagen *Third call for papers – Extended deadline to August 1!* *SDH 2011 Supporting Digital Humanities: Answering the unaskable* 17-18 November, Copenhagen Following up on the success of the first SDH conference, held in Vienna in 2010, the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives have decided to jointly organise the second SDH conference, to be held in November 2011 at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, a participant in both CLARIN and DARIAH. Digital technologies have the potential to transform the types of research questions that we ask in the Humanities, allowing us both to address traditional questions in new and exciting ways but also to answer questions that we were not even aware we could ask – hence the title of this conference. How can digital humanities help us not just to find the answers to our research questions more quickly and more easily, but also to formulate research questions we would never have been able to ask without access to large quantities of digital data and sophisticated tools for their analysis? Supporting Digital Humanities will be a forum for the discussion of these innovations, and of the ways in which these new forms of research can be facilitated and supported. CLARIN and DARIAH are creating European research infrastructures for the humanities and related disciplines. SDH2011 aims to bring together infrastructure providers and users from the communities involved in these two infrastructure initiatives. The conference will consist of a number of topical sessions where providers and users will present and discuss results, obstacles and opportunities for digitally-supported humanities research. Participants are encouraged to engage with honest assessments of the intellectual problems and practical barriers in an open and constructive atmosphere. The first SDH conference in 2010 gave a broad and multi-facetted presentation of the domains of interest to CLARIN and DARIAH. This time we have chosen a somewhat more focussed approach, concentrating on two major themes, but not excluding other themes of interest for the humanities. The two themes are: • Sound and movement – music, spoken word, dance and theatre • Texts and things – texts, and the relationship between texts and material artefacts, such as manuscripts, stone or other carriers of texts Submissions are invited for individual papers and posters, as well as panels. Focus should be on tools and methods for the analysis of digital data rather than on digitisation processes themselves, both from the provider and from the user perspective. We want to pay special attention to inspiring showcases that demonstrate the innovative power of digital methods in the humanities. *Some important dates* July 15, 2011: Submission of suggestion for panels August 1, 2011: Submission of abstracts (1,000-1,500 words) August 15, 2011: Notification on panel proposals September 15, 2011: Author notification October 15, 2011: Final version of papers for publication (8 pages). November 17-18: Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark *Submission of abstracts* SDH2011 uses the EasyChair conference system, accessible at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sdh2011 You will need to log in in order to make a submission. If you already have an EasyChair account, you have to use that one. Otherwise you will need to create an account by signing up. To do so, simply follow the instructions on the EasyChair website. *Guidelines for authors* Guidelines for authors are available at the conference website http://cst.ku.dk/sdh2011/ *Programme committee* Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, Netherlands Helen Bailey, University of Bedfordshire, UK Tim Crawford, Goldsmith’s University of London, UK Matthew James Driscoll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, United States Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany Fotis Jannidis, Würzburg University, Germany Helen Katsiadakis, Academy of Athens, Greece Krister Lindén, Helsinki University, Finland Heike Neuroth, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany Laurent Romary, INRIA, France Nina Vodopivec, Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia Peter Wittenburg, MPI, Netherlands/Germany Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK *Conference website* http://cst.ku.dk/sdh2011/ *Contact* bmaegaard@hum.ku.dk Best regards, Christiane Fritze on behalf of the DARIAH-EU Coordination Office -- Christiane Fritze Joint Secretary General DARIAH-EU Coordination Office Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities Papendiek 14 37073 Goettingen Germany phone: +49 551 39 9061 fax: +49 551 39 3856 mail: cfritze@gcdh.de web: http://www.gcdh.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 24 19:56:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91516187047; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:56:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8276B187034; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:56:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110724195608.8276B187034@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:56:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.184 the Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 184. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:32:27 +0100 (BST) From: peter jones Subject: Re: [Humanist] the Big Tent hypothesis In-Reply-To: <20110711232703.9B3161720F0@woodward.joyent.us> I wonder if I might provide an example of sorts....? Sorry if this reads as a CV but I think it may inform thought on the 'tent', its capacity and the number of entrances (too many of the latter it will blow away; too few - not enough light...). As a full-time community mental health nurse I've been interested in IT / informatics since the 1980s (ZX81, BBC micro, PC... Mac). In the 90s I completed a part-time BA(Hons) Computing & Philosophy [2.1]. In 1987-8 I learned of Hodges' model - a conceptual framework and was smitten by the prospect of combining: * models of nursing; * Hodges' model; * computer graphics (visualization in the social sciences); * programming; * health records and nurse education.A chronology (must update) is here: http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/chron.htm In 2006 I completed a PG (Dip). COPE psychosocial education, still hoping to pursue to further study. In Oct 2006 I attended an Ideas Factory 5 day event (26 people). At the time I was on a three year secondment to my organization's engagement with the (Nat. Programme for IT) this event gave me insight into the mechanics and significance (stakes!) of research ideas generation and funding. 2008 - present: amid personal change I am full-time clinical but maintain a blog (since April 2006): http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ - which includes a bibliography and 'studies' trying to formulate a research question (MSc.) that might combine: * Hodges' model as a conceptual space. * Establishing content types to support Hodges model using Drupal the content management system. * Using Ruby to develop a 'language' for Hodges' model and reflect upon nursing's values.In this way I might then be 'suitably qualified'. Perhaps a role for the digital humanities community is recognise (hence this discussion!) the extent of the actual and prospective community and provide some form of mentoring support. In addition to my health care profession I describe myself as an 'independent scholar'. Given pressures in the public sector I have 5 days unpaid leave this year to pursue my interests (e.g. last Thursday, Univ. of Westminster Public 2.0). I wonder about reducing my hours to further my professional and academic interests. I hope these thoughts help.... Peter Jones 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 ________________________________ From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sent: Tue, 12 July, 2011 0:27:03 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 19:58:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088381870C1; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0BF11870BA; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110724195809.F0BF11870BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.185 PhD studentship at PATRIMA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 185. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:49:02 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Doctoral opportunity *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1311461354_2011-07-23_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_12636.2.doc -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Doctoral opportunity > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:58:42 +0100 > From: Prescott, Andrew Laboratoire d’excellence PATRIMA Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines de l’Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin Bibliothèque nationale de France Appel à candidature pour un contrat doctoral Date limite : 10 septembre 2011 Le Laboratoire d’excellence PATRIMA (www.patrima.org) met au concours un contrat doctoral (3 ans) en littérature contemporaine et patrimoine. Rattaché au Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), bénéficiant du partenariat de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, le doctorant contribuera, par sa thèse, au programme scientifique de PATRIMA et travaillera sous la direction d’Evanghelia Stead, professeur de littérature comparée à l’Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin (CHCSC). Sujet de thèse : Innovations littéraires et graphiques dans les revues littéraires et artistiques (1880-1914). Questions de conservation et de numérisation Les revues littéraires et artistiques constituent un domaine de création innovant et un extraordinaire laboratoire d’expérimentation pour les avant-gardes littéraires et artistiques à partir des années 1880 en Europe, comme le confirment des recherches récentes, menées à l’échelle nationale , ou européenne , et qui privilégient l’interdisciplinarité. Ces travaux mettent au premier plan – aux côtés de l’approche traditionnelle des textes, des idées, et des acteurs – la matérialité, les réalisations typographiques et iconographiques, et les réseaux des relations entre revues d’une part, galeries, salles de spectacles et expositions, de l’autre. Ils tendent à favoriser, parmi les différentes approches, celle de l’histoire culturelle , dans une perspective désireuse de restituer la place historique (éditoriale, littéraire, artistique) des périodiques vus comme des tremplins de création, mais aussi leur valeur d’échange en tant qu’intermédiaires privilégiés entre les lettres et les arts, et des supports au capital intellectuel et artistique nouveau. Le secteur, c’est un fait, bénéficie d’un regain d’intérêt de la recherche collective ces dix dernières années. Il gagnerait à être étayé par des travaux doctoraux d’envergure, entre l’Université et la BnF, qui envisageraient conjointement ces innovations et la question de la patrimonialisation de ces corpus très diversifiés, requérant une fine approche qualitative. Des choix anciens de conservation de ces périodiques ont laissé de côté des éléments et des pages qui contribuent pourtant de manière centrale à leur identité. Leur numérisation, lancée au tout début du projet Gallica de la BnF, pose un certain nombre de problèmes et ouvre plusieurs pistes de recherche et de questionnement. Pour prendre un exemple, la numérisation de revues phares comme La Plume, La Revue blanche, L’Ermitage a été menée non pas à partir des originaux, mais à partir des reprint Slatkine, réalisés à une époque où l’on ne se souciait guère de l’aspect graphique et matériel des périodiques. D’autres numérisations (par exemple celle du célèbre Yellow Book) n’a pas fait place à la couleur, pourtant essentielle, et affichée dès le titre. Une comparaison entre la numérisation disponible sur Gallica et celle mise en ligne par Ryerson University < http://www.archive.org/details/yellowapril189401uoft> confronte l’usager à deux supports sensiblement différents, celui de Gallica étant le moins fidèle. Il en résulte souvent une uniformisation des publications. Elles sont souvent privées de leurs couvertures, ou pourvues de couvertures ultérieures, privées des pages inaugurales ou publicitaires. Ces dernières servent de tremplin à la création et à l’innovation, mais constituent aussi un témoignage historique irremplaçable des relations entre périodiques au niveau national et international. La transmission en noir et blanc d’un patrimoine polychrome, jouant de nombreux formats, incluant des estampes et des inserts, qui entrent en dialogue avec les contenus de chaque numéro et influent sur les choix éditoriaux, pose également problème. S’ils rendent la lecture et l’accès bien plus aisés que par le passé, dans leur forme actuelle, les corpus numérisés et/ou diversement conservés transmettent une image opacifiée d’un corpus extraordinairement pluriel et inventif. D’autres revues, en attente de numérisation, pourraient suivre la même voie sans une réflexion fine et adéquate. La question de la conservation y est évidemment liée. La thèse projetée se pencherait sur ces questions. Elle chercherait d’une part, à cerner de manière à la fois synthétique et diversifiée les innovations graphiques et typographiques en relation avec le contenu littéraire, artistique et idéologique, et les choix éditoriaux d’un corpus de périodiques choisi à bon escient. Elle envisagerait d’autre part le type de conservation et de numérisation apte à mieux rendre compte de ce type de corpus et des problèmes qu’il pose. Dans la perspective envisagée ici, on recommanderait : 1) qu’elle adresse les débuts de ce phénomène foisonnant (avant 1900) du fait du nombre restreint de travaux existants, et de leur nature souvent uniquement littéraire (dans une perspective majoritairement monographique et d’idées). Il s’agirait au contraire d’envisager les périodiques choisis comme des ensembles performants et de comparer les pratiques entre elles. 2) qu’elle procède de manière interdisciplinaire en associant des attentes et des considérations littéraires à une approche sensible aux supports, aux images, à la typographie, et ouvrant sur l’histoire culturelle. Il s’agirait de prendre en compte la valeur d’échange des périodiques entre le monde des lettres et celui des arts, et de les relier à la modernité sociale et culturelle. Cette approche interdisciplinaire gagnerait à être comparée, adressant non pas seulement des périodiques français, mais également ceux qui leur seraient liés dans une autre aire culturelle européenne. 3) qu’elle adresse en parallèle les questions de conservation et de numérisation des périodiques choisis, en élaborant un protocole d’approche et en comparaison avec le type de conservation et de numérisation lancé par d’autres serveurs et/ou institutions. Procédure de candidature Le candidat adressera une lettre de motivation et un CV qui seront adressées, avant le 10 septembre 2011 à evanghelia.stead@uvsq.fr et helene.humbert@uvsq.fr. Le contrat prendra effet courant octobre 2011. Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 24 19:58:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39F818710C; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 65A1B1870FC; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110724195851.65A1B1870FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.186 cfp: science and performance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 186. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:06:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: ISR on science and performance Call for papers: “Experiments in Theatre: New Directions in Science and Performance” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr‐journal.org) Scope and Aims In 2002, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews published a special number on Theatre and Science that became the springboard for key debates that have helped to shape and define the field. Since then, several new books and dozens of articles have significantly expanded the scholarship on theatre and science, while a steady flow of new work for the stage has shown that the interactions between science and theatre continue to surprise, delight, and provoke audiences and readers around the world. Now, a decade on from that seminal 2002 issue, we are seeking contributions of articles of approximately 6,000 words on theatre and science that signal important new developments, directions, and explorations in this ever-expanding field. The editors are seeking a cross-section of both established and emerging scholars and practitioners to contribute to this special number. Contributions might explore such issues as: --How has the field evolved and expanded away from the focus on text-based “science plays” like Stoppard’s Arcadia, Wertenbaker’s After Darwin, and Frayn’s Copenhagen to a greater emphasis on performance in its broadest sense, through such diverse practitioners as Complicite (A Disappearing Number), Punchdrunk (Faust), Athletes of the Heart (Yerma’s Eggs), and Clod Ensemble (Performing Medicine)? --How do theatre and scientific experimentation intersect and cross-fertilize each other? --How has theatre engaged with relatively recent scientific findings and debates, such as those relating to climate change and global warming? -- How do science and technology contribute to innovation in theatrical representation, particularly as digitization and “new media” have generated new kinds of performance? -- Is there a poetics of scientific representation within the theatre? -- Is there an ethical dimension to the theatrical representation of science? Is ‘bad science’ ever justifiable in the theatre? -- Theatre and science beyond the Anglophone and Western traditions. • All contributions will be peer-reviewed. • Articles may contain black-and-white illustrations (for which authors should seek any necessary permissions). • Articles should not exceed a maximum length of 6000 words. • For details about format see guidelines: www.maney.co.uk/journals/notes/isr Please send expressions of interest to by 30 October 2011 to the guest editors as listed below Schedule 30 October 2011: declare intention to contribute (title & abstract) July 2012: submit first version October/November 2012: reviewers’ comments & decision returned to authors July 2013: final version due to the publisher December 2013: issue published as ISR Editors Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University Lecturer in Modern Drama, University of Oxford), kirsten.shepherd-barr@ell.ox.ac.uk Dr Carina Bartleet (Senior Lecturer in Drama, Oxford Brookes University), c.e.bartleet@brookes.ac.uk -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 25 19:49:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCABB188798; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:49:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6055B188784; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:49:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110725194948.6055B188784@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:49:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.187 job at Illinois X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 187. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:51:39 -0500 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: Senior Research Programmer job at Illinois Feel free to distribute widely. The following Senior Research Programmer position has just been posted at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In order to receive full consideration, please submit applications by August 3, 2011. PLEASE SEE https://jobs.illinois.edu/default.cfm?page=job&jobID=8424 FOR FULL JOB POSTING, which includes further details on preferred skills and important application instructions. ---------------- Senior Research Programmer FUNCTION: The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (http://www.lis.illinois.edu) seeks to fill a 100% FTE, 12-month, Academic Professional position as a Senior Research Programmer to support the School's growing research computing needs. The Senior Research Programmer provides professional programming, analysis, maintenance and technical research infrastructure support for GSLIS research projects and proposals. The Senior Research Programmer reports to the GSLIS Associate Dean for Research (ADR), and works closely with GSLIS faculty, research scientists and graduate students, as well as with other GSLIS and University units such as CITES, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA), the Illinois Informatics Institute (I3), and with GSLIS Research Services and GSLIS Core IT. General Responsibilities: * Provides analysis, software development and maintenance support for research projects and proposals. * Consults and provides technical solutions for faculty research projects and proposals. * Provides hardware system planning and support. * Makes key contributions to the design, development and management of a GSLIS shared research software infrastructure. * Leads analysis and strategic planning for GSLIS research computing. * Works with the ADR and with Research Services to coordinate, liaise and integrate with GSLIS IT, University IT and with external entities. * Stays current with industry technology and trends. Requirements: * Strong background in variety of programming/scripting languages, including Java and at least one of C++, Perl, Eclipse IDE, MySQL, Python, PHP * Experience with design and development of rapid prototypes * Experience with the UNIX/LINUX operating system * Demonstrated ability to handle large-scale, data-intensive computing challenges * Ability to bridge between diverse research needs and technical solutions * Experience with application trouble-shooting, quality assurance testing * Strong writing and communication skills * Scheduling flexibility is needed to meet researcher needs and deadlines * Undergraduate degree * Minimum three years of programming experience, showing increasing responsibilities Preferred Skills/Abilities: * Familiarity/interest in LIS research areas, including data mining, information retrieval, social network analysis, natural language processing * Experience working in a team environment * Experience researching, configuring and deploying open-source software * Familiarity with academic environment, ability to work closely with faculty * Familiarity with University of Illinois IT environment * Good project management skills with demonstrated ability to use standard methods for organizing, securing and managing resources for research projects * Undergraduate degree or higher in Computer Science or related field * Five years or more programming experience Illinois is an Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. 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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 Mon Jul 25 19:52:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77029188842; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:52:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A5D46188830; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:52:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110725195220.A5D46188830@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:52:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.188 MA in Digital Sociology 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. 25, No. 188. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:02:08 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Digital Sociology MA Programme ANNOUNCEMENT OF MASTERS PROGRAMME Please disseminate the following announcement of a new MA programme to anyone who may be interested or in a position to disseminate further. MA in Digital Sociology Centre for Creative and Social Technology Goldsmiths' College, University of London The new MA/MSc in Digital Sociology builds on Goldsmiths' leading position in creative research and analysis. The programme combines practice-based technical skills with social methods and sociological thinking to enable graduates to play leading roles in the emerging field of digital sociology. Graduates will learn to assess, use and develop new research instruments for the collection, analysis and presentation of social data in relation to sociological problems. The MA/MSc in Digital Sociology is a collaborative programme taught across the Sociology and Computing Departments, and is based in the centre for Creative and Social Technology (CAST). As part of this new research centre, students will have access to state of the art facilities and emergent creative and social technologies. The MA in Digital Sociology enables students to develop the critical thinking, research skills and digital techniques that are crucial for cutting-edge social research. The MA teaches the practice-based technological skills and the sociological competencies required to become a Digital Sociologist who is able to create, analyse and interact with contemporary digital theory, methods and techniques. Best, 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 Mon Jul 25 19:53:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F54188885; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:53:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 504C2188875; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:53:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110725195350.504C2188875@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:53:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.189 events: TEI customization X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 189. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:56:36 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: TEI customization workshop at Brown: space still available Ever wondered how the sausage is made? Space is still available for the WWP's upcoming workshop on TEI customization: August 29-31, 2011 Introduction to TEI Customization Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: August 18, 2011 For those who may be on the fence, TEI customization is really the master key for planning a successful TEI project. You'll come away with a more expert perspective on the TEI as a language, and new confidence in building and managing your own TEI schemas. No matter how well we advertise, this is likely to be a small and motivated group, so it should be a fun event. We have a few more workshops coming up as well: September 26-28, 2011 Introduction to Text Encoding and Contextual Information with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: September 15, 2011 December 5-7, 2011 Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: November 22, 2011 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 an 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/outreach/seminars/. All workshops are held at Brown University. We hope to see you in Providence! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library http://www.wwp.brown.edu http://library.brown.edu/cds/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 26 20:50:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5767618A570; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:50:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 852F718A566; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:50:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110726205001.852F718A566@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:50:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.190 TEI: clean, unclean & document interchange? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 190. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:04:16 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.189 events: TEI customization In-Reply-To: <20110725195350.504C2188875@woodward.joyent.us> This post raises a point I have been wondering about for some time. According to the description at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p4-doc/html/MD.html customizations may be "clean" or "unclean". "Clean" means that all the documents defined by the customized schema are also TEI documents. But even in this case elements selected by group A that are not selected by group B or vice versa won't be usable by any software developed by either group, unless they both support (in the general case) the entire TEI schema. In the "unclean" case, when the document-sets defined by the two groups only intersect, the problem is obviously exacerbated. So how does this promote document interchange, particularly if "TEI customization is really the master key for planning a successful TEI project", which seems to imply that customization is the norm rather than the exception? Dr Desmond SchmidtInformation Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 5:53 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 26 20:52:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3AA18A617; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 82FF218A602; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110726205237.82FF218A602@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.191 online: text-analysis software; critical edn of Dioscorus X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 191. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Giulia Sarullo (11) Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Software for syntactical analysis [2] From: Clement Kuehn (11) Subject: Critical Edition now online --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:27:15 +0200 From: Giulia Sarullo Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Software for syntactical analysis Dear all, A colleague of mine is working on a research project involving the analysis of the frequency of certain syntactical structures in Italian and English novels, such as subject-verb-complement structures, or the frequency of adverbs ending in a specific suffix and their position in the sentence. Does anyone know any software that could be useful to the purpose? I know that this subject may be a little far from the main interests of the people reading this list, but I thought it could be worth a try. Thank you in advance, Giulia --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:57:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Clement Kuehn Subject: Critical Edition now online Dear Colleagues, The poems by Dioscorus of Aphrodito (c. 520-585) are the oldest manuscripts written by the hand of a known poet (with corrections and revisions). One hundred years ago, Jean Maspero published the first collection of his Greek poems: Un dernier poète grec d'Égypte (Revue des études grecques 24: 426-481). To celebrate the centennial, we are beginning to make available online the new Critical Edition. One poem is in place for your preview. www.ByzantineEgypt.com For iPad users and others, volume 1, part 1, of the edition can be downloaded as a pdf file from the Home page and viewed on your pdf reader. For a biography of the poet, see: www.ByzantineEgypt.org Respectfully, Clement Kuehn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 26 20:57:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D5418A831; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:57:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8AB6F18A81C; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:57:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group