From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 7 20:11:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960E4280134; Mon, 7 May 2012 20:11:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5BAE6280126; Mon, 7 May 2012 20:11:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120507201106.5BAE6280126@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 20:11:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.1 the jubilee X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 1. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 00:33:09 -0400 From: Grover Zinn Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.941 Humanist's silver jubilee! In-Reply-To: <20120506215240.C1D7B281B6E@woodward.joyent.us> Salutations to Willard for being "the one without whom Humanist would not exist" --- for his vision and his commitment (and lots of his time!) >From one who was fortunate enough to be there "at the beginning" so to speak. best Grover Grover A. Zinn William H. Danforth Professor of Religion (emeritus) former Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074 440-775-8866 (department) grover.zinn@oberlin.edu On May 6, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 941. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 07:43:06 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Humanist's silver jubilee > > In the UK anniversaries of accession to the throne are > celebrated as jubilees. In Jewish history a jubilee (a word whose > origins run through Hebrew, Greek and Latin) is "A year of emancipation > and restoration, which according to the institution in Lev. xxv was to > be kept every fifty years, and to be proclaimed by the blast of trumpets > throughout the land" (OED). In 1300, that same source tells me, Boniface > VIII instituted a jubilee as "a year of remission from the penal > consequences of sin" to be celebrated every 100 years by the performance > of pious works. Later regulations were relaxed, so that an extraordinary > jubilee can be celebrated "at any time either to the whole Church or to > particular countries or cities". > > Being digital, Humanist's silver (i.e. 25th year) jubilee requires no > washing in blood, indeed no washing at all! Being our first time, > however, I'd think that a few extraordinary whoops of joy are in order. > > When I began writing this note a fair bit in advance of today, I was not > at all sure whether this whoop of mine would be sent out to the far > corners of the round earth actually on the day itself, 7 May. I wasn't > at all certain that after some 23 hours of travel from London to Sydney, > with all the uncertainties of establishing a connection in a rather > dazed state of mind, I and my arrangements would be up to the challenge. > But it seems they are. So, greetings from Luxe, a very fine coffee shop > in Newtown, Sydney, early on a Monday morning. > > These days I am frequently if unpredictably caught up in amazement that > we in the digital humanities are not only still here, that we're not > only prospering in every external way that marks the health of a field > of enquiry, but that in particular jobs in the field are popping up, PhD > students are vigorously engaged in seeing to the next generation and > very interesting technical problems abound. Yes, there's still the > wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth; I still lose a certain amount > of sleep over the fragility of it all. But, I put it to you, a decade > ago most of what is now happening would have been inconceivable. > Whenever I hear nervous nellies fretting over whether it is or not a > whatever, who's in and who's out etc ad nauseam, I gesture at the PhD > students who are, even as I write, answering the anxieties by their > actions and devotion to their work. Not all of them, perhaps not even a > large minority, will become full-time academics, alas. But they are > bring ever better into being what the nellies say doesn't exist, or not > for very long, or not really at all. I say, behold, rejoice -- and above > all learn. > > The urge to reproduction is, of course, just that, an urge. But there is > a real need for us to make this undertaking of ours less fragile, to > spread it to younger and smarter practitioners, who will find out more > of and about what we're doing than we've been able to discover. > Computing's mutability-by-design won't be realised efficiently or > perhaps not at all by those who have found their version of it and > (mis)taken it for some kind of permanent it. More likely is that the > young ones will see the new in potentia and bring it out into the light. > But I am not speaking of chronological age primarily, rather of that > youthful daring and restlessness to which, I have discovered, so-called > retirement can bestow perhaps an even greater license. > > In this grossly utilitarian and very nervous time it is understandable > and perhaps necessary to fret over our usefulness to others, but in my > opinion we have done altogether too much of this in the digital > humanities. I sometimes wonder what happened to the youthful and > youth-making joy of being curious and finding things out. To paraphrase > an aboriginal American we are apt to forget the whole point of this (and > every other) form of life: to be enabled to run out into the field, look > up into the bright air and rejoice. > > Happy 25th, Humanist! > > All the best. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), 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 May 7 20:15:07 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D49E28062A; Mon, 7 May 2012 20:15:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 47B4928032A; Mon, 7 May 2012 20:15:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120507201505.47B4928032A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 20:15:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.2 events: explanation; reading artifacts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 2. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Lissack (8) Subject: Save the Dates -- Modes of Explanation Conference May 22- 24/2013Paris France [2] From: Roland Wittje (15) Subject: Reading Artifacts Summer Institute 2012, Canada Science & Technology Museum --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 22:59:07 +0100 From: Michael Lissack Subject: Save the Dates -- Modes of Explanation Conference May 22-24/2013Paris France Three days to discuss and learn about our use of modes of explanation. A look at how our mode of explanation affects our affordances for action. American University of Paris May 22-24, 2013 See http://modesofexplanation.org Speakers include: Nancy Nersessian, Paul Thagard, David Snowden, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Kevin Kelly, Hugo Letiche, and Timothy Allen Sponsored by http://isce.edu and please see http://resilientcoherence.com/ Hugo Letice et al, Coherence in the Midst of Complexity: Advances in Social Complexity Theory --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 15:32:15 +0200 From: Roland Wittje Subject: Reading Artifacts Summer Institute 2012, Canada Science & Technology Museum This year's Reading Artifacts Summer Institute will take place August 13-17 2012 at the Canada Science & Technology Museum in Ottawa. For information and registration, please go to: http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/whatson/2012-reading-artifacts-summer-institute.cfm ------------------------------------------ Roland Wittje History of Science Unit University of Regensburg D-93040 Regensburg Germany Phone: +49-941-943-3642 e-mail: roland.wittje@psk.uni-regensburg.de If your mail bounces back at this address you can also write to me at: roland.wittje@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 8 20:19:10 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2FC281907; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:19:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A69E2818F6; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:19:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120508201908.1A69E2818F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 20:19:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.3 the jubilee X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 3. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 22:22:13 +0200 From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.941 Humanist's silver jubilee! In-Reply-To: <20120506215240.C1D7B281B6E@woodward.joyent.us> Without Humanist, whose throbbing heart is Willard McCarty, I'd never have experienced what it means to be part of a community of scholars. Thank you, Willard! Thank you all. May you live long! Hartmut _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 8 20:19:58 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15F928195D; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:19:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0BAE3281949; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:19:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120508201957.0BAE3281949@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 20:19:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.4 open agenda-setting at ACH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 4. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 13:04:50 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: open agenda-setting at ACH: all welcome! Dear colleagues -- This year, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is working toward more open and transparent agenda-setting as a professional society. We look to you to help us better serve our diverse, international digital humanities community -- by generating new ideas for us to explore, and helping to prioritize items that are already on our Executive Council's agenda. To that end, we are launching an "idea marketplace" using a transparent, grassroots, pairwise voting system called "All Our Ideas:" http://ach.org/open-agenda-setting-2012 The system will present you with two ideas chosen at random from our community-generated pool, and will ask you to click on the one you find more important for ACH in 2012. You can also decline to decide between the two ideas, or add a suggestion of your own. A "view results" tab reveals the whole set of contributed ideas (helpful to read before suggesting a new one!) as ranked by the community. ACH can't undertake every project you suggest, but we do promise to take our members' and community's views very seriously and to address as many of them as we can, in open dialogue. Both association members and non-members are welcome to contribute to this process, and we are only moderating new submissions to prevent unproductive overlap or to clarify language. Thanks, as always, for your energy and good ideas -- and for inspiring us to work harder and do better! On behalf of the officers and Executive Council of the ACH, Bethany Nowviskie Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D President, Association for Computers & the Humanities Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute scholarslab.org/ ● uvasci.org/ ● ach.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 8 20:20:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C736281A29; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:20:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 61E832819D6; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:20:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120508202047.61E832819D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 20:20:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.5 Greek on iPad X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 5. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 15:30:29 -0500 From: Helma Dik Subject: Greek reading app for iPad released In-Reply-To: <20120507201505.47B4928032A@woodward.joyent.us> I'd like to draw the attention of the list to a new iPad app offering a choice of Greek texts often used in beginning and intermediate classes: some Lysias, some Plato, the Iliad, and the Antigone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/attikos/id522497233?mt=8 Produced by Josh Day, himself an intermediate Greek student quite recently. Texts and morphology drawn from the Perseus Project via Chicago. Lexical items in words parsed give short definitions, but also link to logeion.uchicago.edu, an integrated interface for Liddell-Scott and other reference works. Enjoy! Helma Dik University of Chicago _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 8 20:22:57 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9810281B2B; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:22:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 773F0281B11; Tue, 8 May 2012 20:22:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120508202255.773F0281B11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 20:22:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.6 events: completed projects; 1st DH conference in Mexico X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 6. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Isabel Galina (23) Subject: 1st Digital Humanists conference, Mexico City, Mexico [2] From: "Michael E. Sinatra" (17) Subject: cfp: Special Poster Session @ Congress 2012 (SDH/SEMI) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 16:52:50 -0500 From: Isabel Galina Subject: 1st Digital Humanists conference, Mexico City, Mexico We are pleased to announce that the 1st Digital Humanists conference will be held in Mexico City, Mexico on the 17th and 18th of May. For the first time in Latin America, national and international participants will discuss the relationship between computing technologies and the Humanities. During the two day meeting participants will have the opportunity to present research on Digital Humanities topics such as: issues in design, management, creation and use of digital resources for the Humanities; text markup; digital museums; scholarly digital editions; DH in teaching; among others. The conference is organized by the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD), Conaculta (Mexico’s council for culture and the arts) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. More information available at: http://www.humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/encuentro Program: http://www.humanidadesdigitales.net/images/programa_encuentroHD.pdf Twitter hashtag for the event: #RedHD ----------------------------------------------------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tel. 56.22.66.66 ext.48662 igalina@unam.mx --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:08:27 +0100 From: "Michael E. Sinatra" Subject: cfp: Special Poster Session @ Congress 2012 (SDH/SEMI) [French version follows] SDH/SEMI would like to invite proposals for a special poster session on recently funded and completed Digital Humanities projects to take place on Monday 28 May 2012 at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Waterloo (ON). (Posters will be display during the three-day conference.) Come and showcase your project (which was either funded in 2012 or whose funding is coming to an end in 2012) to our community! Contact us to showcase your new works published in 2011 and 2012 as well. For more information, please contact Michael E. Sinatra, President (French) SDH/SEMI @ michael.eberle.sinatra@umontreal.ca SDH/SEMI invite des propositions pour une séance spéciale de posters sur des projets en humanités numériques qui viennent d'être subventionnés ou dont le financement vient de se terminer le lundi 28 mai 2012 au congrès de la Fédération des sciences humaines à Waterloo (ON). (Les posters seront affichés durant les trois jours de la conférence.) Venez montrer vos projets à notre communauté! Prenez aussi contact avec nous pour publiciser vos récents ouvrages publiés en 2011 et 2012. Pour plus d'information, merci de contacter Michael E. Sinatra, Président (Français) SDH/SEMI @ michael.eberle.sinatra@umontreal.ca ----------------------------------- Dr. Michael E. Sinatra, Associate Professor http://michaelsinatra.org/ Département d'études anglaises Université de Montréal ----------------------------------- President 'Synergies' http://www.synergiescanada.org President (French) 'Society 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 Thu May 10 01:51:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515B6281AE7; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:51:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8183F281961; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:51:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120510015121.8183F281961@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 01:51:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.7 jobs: postdoc and PhD studentships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 7. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Hilde De Weerdt" (40) Subject: Postdoctoral Research Associate-- East Asian Digital Humanities [2] From: Andrew Prescott (28) Subject: PhD Scholarships in Digital Arts and Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:18:34 +0100 From: "Hilde De Weerdt" Subject: Postdoctoral Research Associate-- East Asian Digital Humanities Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to a four-year post at King's College London. We are looking for a candidate with an interest in visualization and/or text mining for a project focusing on the history of communication in imperial China. The Research Associate in East Asian Digital Humanities will conduct research and publish in an area relevant to the project (text mining-e.g., the automated mark-up and extraction of named entities in classical Chinese, or visualization in the digital humanities); consult on appropriate mark-up procedures; develop delivery and querying tools in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities; manage the project website; liaise with international experts; assist in the organization of a conference on visualization in the humanities. A Ph.D. in informatics or computing sciences, or a PhD. in a humanities subject together with expertise in the digital humanities is required. Familiarity with East Asian languages is desirable but not essential. The position is for a duration of four years starting September 2012. The closing date for receipt of applications is 10th June 2012. For further details and an application pack, please go to http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex =11686 Best Wishes, Hilde Hilde De Weerdt Reader in Chinese History History Department King's College London Room Q125 Strand London WC2R 2LS TEL: +44 (0)20 7848 2779 Email: hilde.de_weerdt@kcl.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 11:22:11 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: PhD Scholarships in Digital Arts and Humanities In-Reply-To: <1BE1F822-166E-4F5C-91A9-C8CB281D87AD@gmail.com> > *From:* Melanie Marshall > > *Date:* 5 May 2012 04:57:55 GMT+01:00 > *To:* MUSICOLOGY-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > *Subject:* *[MUSICOLOGY-ALL] PhD Scholarships in Digital Arts and > Humanities* > *Reply-To:* Melanie Marshall > > > PhD Scholarships in Digital Arts and Humanities > > University College Cork invites applications for 5 four-year > fully-funded doctoral studentships in the structured PhD program in > Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH), beginning September 2012. > Coordinated with an all-Irish university consortium, the full-time DAH > program combines an interdisciplinary structured PhD with individual > research based on project proposals provided by candidates during the > application process. Music-related projects may focus on > practice-based research in digital media, theoretical engagement with > digital media, or the understudied music manuscripts in the Seán Ó > Riada Collection held in the Boole Library. The stipend is 16,000 euro > per annum plus tuition. Apply by 31 May 2012. > > For further details, see > > http://www.music.ucc.ie/index.php?/postgrad/dah/ > > Inquiries may be directed to the DAH Coordinator, Prof. Brendan Dooley > (b.dooley@ucc.ie ). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 10 01:55:02 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FB4280172; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:55:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2387128013B; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:55:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120510015500.2387128013B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 01:55:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.8 publication & cfp: Anglo-Irish Treaty; e-book history; #Alt-Academy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 8. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (16) Subject: CFPs & new features at #Alt-Academy [2] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (10) Subject: FW: What Is the History of (Electronic) Books? [3] From: Shawn Day (15) Subject: DIFP eBook on the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 Now Available forDownload --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 16:13:21 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: CFPs & new features at #Alt-Academy We are very happy to announce a new phase of publication at #Alt-Academy, an open-access online project at MediaCommons. #Alt-Academy was launched last summer with 24 essays by 33 authors, highlighting the role of "alternative" academic professionals in the humanities and related fields. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/ The four projects joining #Alt-Academy today promise to open the publication to an even richer and more diverse set of voices. Please consider contributing to: "Who We Are," a census of the community, led by Dr. Katina Rogers, who is also (with the Scholarly Communication Institute) conducting a survey of graduate preparation for alternative academic careers: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/who-we-are "Visible Margin," a forthcoming regular publication of the site, edited by Drs. Polina Kroik and S. Miller. Visible Margin will feature creative and critical work by PhDs, graduate students, and alternative academics: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/visible-margin "Getting There 2," a second "Getting There" cluster for #Alt-Academy, offering practical pathways, signposts, and advice for people considering alternative academic careers. This cluster will be edited by Dr. Brian Croxall: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/pieces/cfp-getting-there-2 and "Alt-Ac Goes Entrepreneur," a new cluster to be edited by Dr. Daveena Tauber, examining the role of entrepreneurialism in academic training, the knowledge economy, and the alternative academic community: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/pieces/cfp-alt-ac-goes-entrepreneur #Alt-Academy also welcomes proposals for further new clusters and features. For more information, see "How It Works" on our MediaCommons site. Bethany Nowviskie, Coordinating Editor, #Alt-Academy Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute President, Association for Computers & the Humanities scholarslab.org/ ● uvasci.org/ ● ach.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 15:18:04 +0100 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: FW: What Is the History of (Electronic) Books? CFP: What Is the History of (Electronic) Books? Four decades after the launch of Michael Hart's Project Gutenberg and three decades after the publication of Robert Darnton's seminal essay, "What Is the History of Books?," are we able to start telling the history of electronic books? If so, what are the ways by which authorship, publishing, reading, and scholarship have been influenced, shaped, or changed by electronic books? Do electronic books transmit texts in new ways? What relationships do electronic books create or threaten amongst authors, publishers, and readers? What does it mean to collect and curate electronic books? The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (PBSC) is seeking essays for a special spring 2013 issue on the history and future of the electronic book. Papers are invited from scholars of any nationality on aspects of the production, dissemination, and uses of electronic books, as well as the relationship between printed books and their digital counterparts. Although several initiatives like Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), as well as scholars like Raymond Siemens, David Gants, Julia Bonaccorsi, and Ian Lancashire, are working in this area, our investigations are still in their infancy. Primary research on new subject matter in this emerging field is welcome, as are syntheses of or critical engagements with existing studies. Topics may include electronic books in relation to the future of scholarly communication or the economics of publishing, the history of popular or academic electronic book collections like Early English Books Online (EEBO), ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB), or Google Books, the relationship between readers and devices like the Kindle, Nook, or Sony Reader, the materiality and form of electronic books, the digital transmission of texts, and the act of reading electronic books. Submissions in either English or French of no more than 9000 words should be sent as .doc or docx attachments to the issue's guest editor, Geoffrey Little (geoffrey.little@concordia.ca), by 1 September 2012. The submission should include an abstract of no more than 200 words and a short biographical statement. Articles receiving a favourable peer review must be resubmitted by 15 January 2013 for publication in the spring. In matters of spelling and style, PBSC follows the Canadian Oxford Dictionary and the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (2010) (footnotes). The guest editor welcomes queries at any time. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada is peer-reviewed. Articles are indexed in America: History and Life, the Canadian Periodical Index, and the MLA International Bibliography. Contents are also listed in the Recent Periodicals section of The Library. **** Geoffrey Little Concordia University Montreal, Quebec geoffrey.little@concordia.ca --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 15:03:13 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DIFP eBook on the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 Now Available forDownload The Documents in Irish Foreign Policy, a project of the Royal Irish Academy is proud to announce that its first eBook on the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 is now available for free download. research.dho.ie/1921treaty.epub http://research.dho.ie/1921treaty.epub research.dho.ie/1921treaty.mobi http://research.dho.ie/1921treaty.mobi One of the prescribed topics for the documents-based study in the Irish School Leaving Certificate 2014 and 2015 is ‘The Pursuit of Sovereignty and the Impact of Partition, 1919-1949.’ Included in the three case studies for this topic is ‘The Treaty negotiations, October – December 1921’ and as such, the chapter on the Treaty negotiations in Volume I of the Documents of Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series (www.difp.ie) will be immensely beneficial to history teachers. With this in mind, DIFP decided to embark on a new venture and put the material from this chapter into an eBook for teachers and students. The Anglo-Irish Treaty eBook makes accessing documents relating to the Treaty as straightforward as possible. This selection of documents contains crucial correspondence between the main political figures involved in the negotiations and shows the problems and stresses of negotiating an international agreement. The documents are structured chronologically and provide a gripping and accessible account of a key moment in modern Irish history. DIFP would like to give special thanks Niall O’Leary of the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) project for facilitating the production of the eBook. We would like to thank our colleagues at the National Archives of Ireland, in particular Elizabeth McEvoy, for their assistance and for providing digital images of the original copy of the Treaty. The National Archives’ online exhibition on the Anglo-Irish Treaty, can be found at http://treaty.nationalarchives.ie/ --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0) 1 2342441 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://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 Thu May 10 01:56:04 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F822801E9; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:56:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8247E2801D2; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:56:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120510015602.8247E2801D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 01:56:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.9 events: ESSLLI 2012 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 9. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 16:31:53 +0100 From: "A. Herzig" Subject: ESSLLI 2012 call for participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AT ESSLLI 2012 Meeting: 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) Date: 06-Aug-2012 - 17-Aug-2012 Location: Opole, Poland Meeting URL: http://www.esslli2012.pl Early registration deadline: 15-06-2012 ******************************************************************************** **Meeting Description** For the past 24 years, the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) has been organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. During two weeks, 49 courses and 6 workshops are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks). There will be three evening lectures by Mel Fitting, Jonathan Ginzburg and Adam Przepiorkowski. In 2012, ESSLLI will held in Opole, Poland and will be organized by the University of Opole, Poland. Chair of the program committee is Andreas Herzig, and chairs of the organizing committee are Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska and Janusz Czelakowski. **Summer School Programme** http://www.esslli2012.pl/index.php?id=67 **Online Registration** http://www.esslli2012.pl/index.php?id=68 **Programme Committee** Chair: Andreas Herzig (Université de Toulouse and CNRS) Local co-chair: Anna Pietryga (University of Opole) Area specialists: Language and Computation: - Miriam Butt (Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz) - Gosse Bouma (Groningen University) Language and Logic: - Regine Eckardt (Language and Literature, University of Göttingen) - Rick Nouwen (UiL-OTS, Utrecht University) Logic and Computation: - Natasha Alechina (CS, University of Nottingham) - Andreas Weiermann (Mathematics and Computation, Ghent University) **Organizing Committee** Chair: Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska and Janusz Czelakowski (University of Opole) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 10 20:49:32 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC260281008; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:49:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C2072281FBB; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:49:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120510204930.C2072281FBB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:49:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.10 the infancy of our relation to 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. 26, No. 10. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 06:46:11 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the infancy of our relation to tools The following is from David Malouf's autobiographical story, 12 Edmondstone Street (the address of the house in Brisbane in which he grew up): > Set loose in a world of *things*, we are struck at first by their > terrible otherness. It drives us to fury. For a time, when we are all > mouth, we try to swallow them, then to smash them to smithereens -- > little hunters on the track of the ungraspable. Till we perceive at > last that in naming and handling things we have power over them. If > they refuse to yield their history to us they may at least, in time, > become agents of ours. This is the process of our first and deepest > education. A 'secret machinery' gets to work in us, 'a hidden > industry of the senses and the spirit' whose busy handling and > hearing and overhearing is our second birth into the world -- into > that peculiar embodiment of it that is a household and a house. > (pp. 9-10) Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, 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 10 20:53:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2427B2813FD; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:53:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0B342813E8; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:53:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120510205343.A0B342813E8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:53:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.11 the future of a LinkedIn group? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 11. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 16:30:30 +0100 From: Stephen Woodruff Subject: Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing In-Reply-To: <20120501054906.EF185280AE0@woodward.joyent.us> I'd like to ask Willard, and anyone reading this over his shoulder, for suggestions of what to do with a LinkedIn group "Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing" I manage. [Note that this is a LinkedIn group; those unfamiliar with LinkedIn might want to take a look at this mechanism if interested in replying. --WM] I am leaving academia at the end of July (rather sadly as I love teaching). The group has over a thousand members, which is, roughly, one more than the number of people I'd have guessed work in the field. I think this is probably a valuable networking and informational resource for its members. I can open it as an "anyone can join" group but it is likely, I'm told, to be swamped by advertisers. Shall I pass control to Willard? Would he want it? Do the readers of his online seminar belong? Any answers? regards, Stephen Woodruff Humanities Advanced Technology & information Institute 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 0JU Scotland / UK 0141 330 4508 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 10 20:55:33 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2EA2814BC; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:55:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0280828147F; Thu, 10 May 2012 20:55:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120510205532.0280828147F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:55:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.12 events: Digital Humanities Forum & cfp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 12. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 12:10:55 -0500 From: Brian Rosenblum Subject: KU DIGITAL HUMANITIES FORUM and CALL FOR PAPERS (Big Data/Uncertainty) The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce our Fall 2012 Digital Humanities Forum, September 20-22, 2012. The Forum consists of three separate but related programs held over three days: * Day One (Thursday, September 20): WORKSHOPS A set of in-depth, hands on workshops on digital humanities tools topics, such as GIS, data visualization, text markup and annotation, and creating online digital exhibits. * Day Two (Friday, September 21): THATCamp KANSAS An "unconference" for technologists and humanists, with conversations about topics defined on-site by the participants. * Day Three (Saturday, September 22): BIG DATA AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE HUMANITIES A one-day program of panels and poster sessions showcasing digital humanities projects and research. ***See Call for Papers below.*** Plenary speakers at the Forum include * Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library * Kari Kraus, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies and the Department of English at the University of Maryland * Geoffrey Rockwell, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta, Canada We invite you to attend any or all of the three events. There is no registration fee to participate; however, space is limited, especially for the BootCamp Workshops and THATCamp. Registration opens June 15. See http://idrh.ku.edu/dh-forum-2012 for information as schedules, lodging arrangements, and other details are finalized. *** CALL FOR PAPERS BIG DATA AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE HUMANITIES September 22, 2012, University of Kansas This conference (part of our three-day Digital Humanities Forum) seeks to address the opportunities and challenges humanistic scholars face with the ubiquity and exponential growth of new web-based data sources (e.g. electronic texts, social media, and audiovisual materials) and digital methods (e.g. information visualization, text markup, crowdsourcing metadata). "Big data" is any dataset that is too large to be analyzable with traditional means (whether e.g. manual close readings or database queries). Developments in cloud computing, data management, and analytics mean that humanists and allied scholars can analyze and visualize larger patterns in big data sets. With these opportunities come the challenges of scale and interpretation; we have moved from the uncertainty resulting from having too little data to the uncertainty implicit in large amounts of data. What does this mean for how humanists structure, query, analyze and visualize data? How does this change the questions we ask and the interpretations we assign? How do we combine the best of a macro (larger-pattern) and a micro (close reading) approach? And how is interpretative and other uncertainty modeled? Presentations addressing these both practical and epistemological questions are welcome. Proposal submission information: Presentations may be one of two types: (1) 20 minute paper or demonstration; (2) poster. For all presentations, a 500 word abstract is required. Please indicate whether you are proposing a paper presentation or poster session. Proposals for papers not accepted in the oral sessions may be accommodated in the poster session. Deadline for proposal submissions: June 30. Proposal submission opens on May 11. To submit a proposal, please see: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=4702JA4458B6545A40A050441 See http://idrh.ku.edu/dh-forum-2012 for information as schedules, lodging arrangements, and other details are finalized. ------------------------- Brian Rosenblum and Arienne Dwyer Co-Directors, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Kansas idrh@ku.edu http://idrh.ku.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 11 18:56:37 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB91C281CD5; Fri, 11 May 2012 18:56:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F35F3281CC3; Fri, 11 May 2012 18:56:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120511185635.F35F3281CC3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 18:56:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.13 a taxonomy, with a question (or so) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 13. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 04:51:57 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a taxonomy, with a question Allow me, if you will, to run by you a rough taxonomy of work in the digital humanities and ask for your comments. By this taxonomy there are three kinds of work for which we as a whole bear responsibility: 1. Development of computational tools and techniques to assist scholarship in the humanities and interpretative social sciences; 2. Study of the effects and implications coming from the use of these tools and techniques; 3. Imagining and insofar as possible articulating new computings from kinds of research not yet possible. The first of these is the bread-and-butter activity of many of us. We make things from developers' tools or figure out ingenious ways of using off-the-shelf software and then either apply these things and techniques to our own research or hand them over to colleagues less capable or inclined to do the technical work. Basic, fundamental stuff, but nothing really new here. This activity is to the digital humanities as almost all engineering is to the industries that keep civilisations running. The second is social-scientific, historical and/or philosophical in character. It is also basic and easily understood, though doing it well is not easy, of course. Built into so much of it, however, is the deterministic assumption that Technology, like some great force of nature demanding to be anthropomorphised, comes at our lives with benefits, requirements and threats it would be utterly foolish to ignore. We had better learn to deal with it -- and fast -- lest we be overcome or left in the dust etc etc. (I realise that I am caricaturing an attitude somewhat, but I do so in order to call to the surface a state of mind that historically keeps surfacing at moments of stress or superabundance of techno-scientific triumphalism.) The third is, as a colleague remarked recently, the frontier. It goes back to the plasticity of Turing's scheme, before hardware was structured by von Neumann's architecture (based in turn on neurophysiological ideas of the early 1940s) and in due course turned into the machines we now have. Bravo, well done and so on, but not far enough to keep pace with restless imagination! It asks, as few (but some) have done, what would a computing be like that was suitable to what we imagine actually happens, e.g. when we read, or write, or look at a painting, or paint one, or listen to music, or play it, or compose it? For if we had such a computing, or computings, would they not serve scholarship better? In other words, almost all of what we do is like what most automotive engineers do -- take a given (four wheels, engine, drive-train, steering wheel on the right or left-hand side etc) and do it one slightly better. But what about the engineering that rethinks the whole idea of a vehicle, that goes beyond even what now could be done if only conservative management and the even more conservative public would pay attention and consider it? (I know a brilliant automotive engineer who has the wildest and most interesting ideas, which we consider as we are driving along in a car that "knows" so much about what's going on, and does so much about what it knows, that I am amazed even at the now quietly commonplace.) Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, 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 11 18:57:57 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64515281D99; Fri, 11 May 2012 18:57:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5864281D89; Fri, 11 May 2012 18:57:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120511185755.D5864281D89@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 18:57:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.14 events: a lecture at Cork X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 14. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:28:41 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: UCC/DAH Digital Humanities Lecture This may be of interest to subscribers to this list: UCC/DAH Digital Humanities Lecture Date: 25 May 2012 Venue: Council Room in the North Wing on the main campus at University College Cork Time: 10:00 am Digital Arts and Humanities and the UCC Digital Academy are pleased to announce a series of workshops by prominent researchers in the Digital Humanities field, the first of which to be held on 25 May, in the Council Room in the North Wing on the main campus at University College Cork, at 10am. Our guest is Dr. Claire Warwick, Professor of Digital Humanities at University College, London. Prof. Warwick is Head of the Department of Information Studies at UCL; Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; and Vice-Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She will be speaking about her latest work and how it fits into the problematic of the Digital Cultures research agenda. For more information: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/clairewarwick We look forward to seeing many of you there. Brendan Dooley b.dooley@ucc.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 12 20:38:26 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF43281014; Sat, 12 May 2012 20:38:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D001B280F4F; Sat, 12 May 2012 20:38:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120512203823.D001B280F4F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 20:38:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.15 a taxonomy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 15. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 15:00:45 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 26.13 a taxonomy, with a question (or so) In-Reply-To: <20120511185635.F35F3281CC3@woodward.joyent.us> to me digital humanities includes the publication of scholarship online, i.e., re the change in ways of knowledge transfer and the issue of valuation of publishing online in particular re articles but also books thanks and best, steven totosy On May 11, 2012, at 2:56 pm, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 13. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 04:51:57 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: a taxonomy, with a question > > Allow me, if you will, to run by you a rough taxonomy of work in the > digital humanities and ask for your comments. > > By this taxonomy there are three kinds of work for which we as a > whole bear responsibility: > > 1. Development of computational tools and techniques to assist > scholarship in the humanities and interpretative social sciences; > > 2. Study of the effects and implications coming from the use of these > tools and techniques; > > 3. Imagining and insofar as possible articulating new computings from > kinds of research not yet possible. > > The first of these is the bread-and-butter activity of many of us. We > make things from developers' tools or figure out ingenious ways of using > off-the-shelf software and then either apply these things and techniques > to our own research or hand them over to colleagues less capable or > inclined to do the technical work. Basic, fundamental stuff, but nothing > really new here. This activity is to the digital humanities as almost > all engineering is to the industries that keep civilisations running. > > The second is social-scientific, historical and/or philosophical in > character. It is also basic and easily understood, though doing it well > is not easy, of course. Built into so much of it, however, is the > deterministic assumption that Technology, like some great force of > nature demanding to be anthropomorphised, comes at our lives with > benefits, requirements and threats it would be utterly foolish to > ignore. We had better learn to deal with it -- and fast -- lest we be > overcome or left in the dust etc etc. (I realise that I am caricaturing > an attitude somewhat, but I do so in order to call to the surface a > state of mind that historically keeps surfacing at moments of stress or > superabundance of techno-scientific triumphalism.) > > The third is, as a colleague remarked recently, the frontier. It goes > back to the plasticity of Turing's scheme, before hardware was > structured by von Neumann's architecture (based in turn on > neurophysiological ideas of the early 1940s) and in due course turned > into the machines we now have. Bravo, well done and so on, but not far > enough to keep pace with restless imagination! It asks, as few (but > some) have done, what would a computing be like that was suitable to > what we imagine actually happens, e.g. when we read, or write, or look > at a painting, or paint one, or listen to music, or play it, or compose > it? For if we had such a computing, or computings, would they not serve > scholarship better? > > In other words, almost all of what we do is like what most automotive > engineers do -- take a given (four wheels, engine, drive-train, steering > wheel on the right or left-hand side etc) and do it one slightly better. > But what about the engineering that rethinks the whole idea of a > vehicle, that goes beyond even what now could be done if only > conservative management and the even more conservative public would pay > attention and consider it? (I know a brilliant automotive engineer who > has the wildest and most interesting ideas, which we consider as we are > driving along in a car that "knows" so much about what's going on, and > does so much about what it knows, that I am amazed even at the now > quietly commonplace.) > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, 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 12 20:41:06 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE42281305; Sat, 12 May 2012 20:41:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D8D442812F2; Sat, 12 May 2012 20:41:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120512204103.D8D442812F2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 20:41:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.16 events: collaborative resource development & delivery X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 16. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 12:46:12 -0400 From: Nancy Ide Subject: LREC Workshop Program: Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery LREC Workshop, May 27, 2012 Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery Organizers: Nancy Ide, Collin Baker, Christiane Fellbaum, Rebecca = Passonneau Workshop Program 09:00 --09:15 -- Welcome and Overview 09:15 --10:00 -- Discussion paper The MASC/MultiMASC Community Collaboration Project: Why You Should Be Involved and How Nancy Ide, Collin Baker, Christiane Fellbaum, Rebecca Passonneau 10:00 --10:30 -- Discussion: Strategies to Engage the Community in Collaborative Annotation 10:30 --11:00 Coffee break20 11:00 --11:30 -- Invited talk Towards a Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud Christian Chiarcos 11:30 --12:30 -- Collaborative annotation task and discussion20 12:30 --14:00 -- Lunch break 14:00 --15:30 Paper session Annotated Corpora in the Cloud: Free Storage and Free Delivery Graham Wilcock Guidance through the Standards Jungle for Linguistic Resources Maik StFChrenberg, Antonina Werthmann, Andreas Witt Supporting Collaborative Improvement of Resources in the Khresmoi Health Information System Lorraine Goeuriot, Allan Hanbury, Gareth J. F. Jones, Liadh Kelly, Sascha Kriewel, Ivan Martinez Rodriguez, Henning MFCller, Miguel A. Tinte 15:30 --16:00 -- Demonstrations20 16:00 --16:30 Coffee break 16:30 --17:40 -- Paper session Building Parallel Corpora Through Social Network Gaming Nathan David Green Three Steps for Creating High-Quality Ontology Lexica John McCrae, Philipp Cimiano PromONTotion: Creating an Advertisement Thesaurus By Semantically Annotating Ad Videos Through Collaborative Gaming Katia Lida Kermanidis, Emmanouil Maragkoudakis The Phrase Detective Multilingual Corpus, Release 0.1 Massimo Poesio, Jon Chamberlain, Udo Kruschwitz, Livio Robaldo, Luca Ducceschi 17:40 --18:00 -- Closing _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 20:30:51 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124E5281F66; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:30:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F108D281F5B; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:30:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120513203048.F108D281F5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 20:30:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.17 the taxonomy; preservation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 17. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (44) Subject: the taxonomy [2] From: Andrew Prescott (128) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.930 bit rot & preservation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 07:00:44 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the taxonomy In asking about the taxonomy that I sketched, my intention was to highlight the mostly one-way traffic, from the technologies of computing to the humanities, that seems to dominate our discussions, thoughts and work. Recently I have been provoked to think about the degree to which the digital humanities is what the term implies, one of the disciplines of the humanities concerned with digital methods and tools. If all that it amounts to de facto is analogous to what an engineering firm does when it builds a standard bridge, then "humanities" doesn't belong in the name of it. Nor does "humanities" belong if all our more theoretically inclined colleagues do is to study the *impact* of the machine without for a moment questioning the whole idea of an impact. As John Law and John Whittaker wrote in 1986, in the Proceedings of the third ACM-SOGOIS conference on Office Automation Systems, "the PC is not a projectile" (pp. 21-32, in the ACM Digital Library). The strong effects of the technologies we unleash are of course in need of study. But great programmes of innovation such as are now being funded are in danger of getting nowhere, or worse, if no one simultaneously asks what human needs and desires correspond and, for us especially, which are going unwatered and unloved. I always have ringing in my ears the passionate awakening call of Louis Milic, "The next step", which appeared as the first article in the first issue of the first journal in our field, Computers and the Humanities, 1.1 (1966). He spoke of a great imaginative failure on the part of the implementers of the time. They were largely taking "the computer" (as if it were one fixed thing) as an impactful force and then shaping their research accordingly. What are we desiring? I would like to hear that we've taken the next step Milic contemplated. Have we? I attach here below the text of Milic's article (without the notes) for the benefit of anyone sufficiently exercised about the quality of our form of life to take the measure of it. Comments? Yours, WM -- *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1336856451_2012-05-12_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_3314.1.txt -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, 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, 13 May 2012 16:58:49 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.930 bit rot & preservation In-Reply-To: <20120502052214.8C929280F3B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I was very interested to read here about the site attempting to archive election literature. Electionleaflets.org appears to have been established without any knowledge of the wonderful efforts of the British Library of Political Science at the LSE to systematically archive election ephemera. The LSE collection admittedly focuses on general elections, but does include considerable quantities of local materials, particularly from Greater London. Some information about this important and long-standing project is available here: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/holdings/election_ephemera.aspx However, this collection doesn't systematically include local elections, which appear to be the immediate focus of electionleaflets.org. The LSE collection is not the only one. Salford University also a huge collection of election ephemera as part of the Conservative Central Office archive: http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb427bec?page=1#id770510 Strathclyde University has also systematically collected material relating to recent Scottish elections: http://www.strath.ac.uk/archives/ourcollections/xml/otherarchivalcollections/scottishelectionarchive/ In Wales, the National Library of Wales and many local record offices have also collected large quantites election literature. So, there is plenty of collecting of election literature going on by libraries and archives. The problems are not that this material is not being collected. I would suggest that there are some other questions which however we ought to consider: - Should we worry about election leaflets at all? Isn't a more pressing question ensuring that web sites are archived? The LSE piece I linked to above points out that these fall in the remit of the UK Web Archive, which currently links to about 130 sites, but this is clearly far from comprehensive. I suspect that there is a far higher risk that you will not be able to find your local councilors web presence in 20 years time than that you can't find their election literature. - If we decide that it is important to archive printed leaflets as well, is the scanning and uploading method used by electionleaflets.org more efficient than the more informal methods used by LSE (which has relied on an army of volunteers simply to collect and pass on the leaflets)? At present, electionleaflets.org has gathered over 7,000 items, which compares with 14,000 items in the LSE archive, but local elections will of course generate far more literature than general elections. - The most pressing question is what happens in the long terms to sites like electionleaflets.org. We haven't got much information about how the data collected by electionleaflets will be preserved. Its motivation appears to be a political one rather than establishing a long-term archive, and the infrastructure looks limited: 'The idea was conjured up in December 2008 at a weekend in Derbyshire, and finally acted upon in Francis's front living room in Cambridge at the end of April 2009'. Will this site still be with us in twenty years time? Equally mysterious is the status of the more long-standing British Election Ephemera Archive which has now linked up with electionleaflets.org: http://www.by-elections.co.uk/ In general terms, however, what strikes me (yet again) is how much we need to build closer links with the librarians and archivists who are at the coalface of these issues. It is not simply that there are important archives like the one at the LSE of which we are apparently unaware, but it should also be remembered that there is now a huge scholarly literature on such issues as digital curation and archiving of born-digital materials which seems somehow to have eluded many practitioners of the digital humanities. Andrew Andrew Prescott Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 (0)20 7848 2651 www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh On 02/05/2012 06:22, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 930. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 10:42:35 +0200 > From: Jonathan Gray > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.927 publications: bit rot; spectral imaging > In-Reply-To:<20120501054715.32016280848@woodward.joyent.us> > > > I agree that we should not be too hasty in thinking that archiving > everything is an unconditionally good thing. Borges and Calvino also > have nice short stories parodying this [1]. And Nietzsche writes > wonderful things about memory and forgetting in his "On the Use and > Abuse of History". > > Regarding the Economist article, I think it is making a very important > point, which is that archivists are struggling to implement policies > and practises to preserve material which is of historical interest. On > the one hand this depends on what we consider to be of "historical > interest". > > A few years ago I attended a seminar on digital history at the British > Library co-organised by the National Archives and the Royal Historical > Society [2]. Natalie Ceeney, then Chief Executive of the National > Archives, said that they were saving what they could, but that they > didn't really know what to save, what not to save and where to focus. > She asked for assistance from historians in the room to advise the > National Archives on what to prioritise. > > The loss of up to 22 million emails from the Bush administration > (partly as many private non-governmental email accounts were used to > discuss matters of national interest) helps to put this into > perspective [3]. Some friends of mine recently started a site to > archive election leaflets, to try to track the promises of politicians > before they came into power - as apparently no-one else is > systematically doing this [4]. > > While archiving everything for the sake of archiving everything is > clearly questionable, much of what we now consider digital detritus > could well be transformed from dust into gold by a gifted historical > interpreter, investigative reporter, or documentary maker. In my > opinion we - qua digital humanists - shouldn't let amusing or > insightful straw men satires from the likes of Borges or Calvino > incline us (consciously or accidentally) to side with policies that > protect the short-term interests of publishers or politicians, as > opposed to the longer-term objective of preserving and opening up > material that could be of interest to historians, the media and the > general public. > > Jonathan > > [1] http://jonathangray.org/2011/08/24/on-archiving-everything-borges-calvino-google/ > [2] http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/14/gerald-aylmer-seminar-2007-digital-horizons/ > [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy > [4] http://www.electionleaflets.org/ > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 20:31:26 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C652128125A; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:31:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C8395281245; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:31:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120513203124.C8395281245@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 20:31:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.18 job at Amsterdam X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 18. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 07:14:52 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: Assistant professorship in Computational Linguistics, Amsterdam Assistant professorship in Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation is looking for excellent candidates for an Assistant Professorship in the field of Computational Linguistics. This is a permanent position at the Faculty of Science with a probation period of two years. Preferred starting date: September 1st 2012 (but no later than January 2013). ILLC's Language and Computation group is renowned for its work in statistical natural language processing. The closing date for application is 1 June 2012. For more information, see http://www.uva.nl/vacatures/vacatures.cfm/8C176BDC-C2E3-456D-87705B498162EAF3. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 20:32:51 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32A6281838; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:32:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55298281826; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:32:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120513203249.55298281826@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 20:32:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.19 events: summer school at Leipzig X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 19. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 20:48:44 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: ESU "Culture & Technology", 23 - 31 July 2012 University of Leipzig Extension of application phase: ESU "Culture & Technology", 23 - 31 July 2012 University of Leipzig - http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ We are happy to announce that the deadline for the application for a place at the European Summer School „Culture & Technology” has been postponed to the 31st of May 2012. Supported by the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing the Summer School will take place at Leipzig University, Germany, from the 23rd to the 31st of July 2012. We do not yet know whether more funding can be secured. Notwithstanding the extension of the application phase the reviewing process and the allocation of places will start the 16th of May. The Summer School is directed at 60 participants from all over Europe and beyond. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, and post docs from the Humanities, Engineering or Computer Sciences, as well as academics, librarians and technical assistants who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries or archives, or wish to do so are its target audience. The Summer School aims to provide a stimulating environment for discussing, learning and advancing knowledge and skills in the application of computer technologies to the Arts and Humanities, in libraries, archives, and similar fields. The Summer School seeks to integrate these activities into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, where questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds are asked. It further aims to provide insights into the complexity of humanistic data and the challenges the Humanities present for computer science and engineering and their further development. The Summer School takes place across 9 whole days. The intensive programme consists of workshops, daily public lectures, regular project presentations and poster sessions. The public lectures will seek to handle questions posed by the development of Virtual Research Infrastructures for the Humanities from the perspective of the Humanities, their own ways of working and their specific types of data. The workshop programme will be composed of 5 to 7 thematic strands. At the moment of writing the following workshops are being planned: * Computing Methods applied to DH: XML Markup and Document Structuring * Stylometry * Query in Text Corpora * Art history and the critical analysis of corpora * Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of multimodal human-human / human-machine communication * TextGrid * Project Management Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Information on how to apply for a place in one of the workshops can be found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/. Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and who submit a qualified project description. Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non-specialists can follow, and to support what they hope to learn from the summer school with good arguments. The Summer School will feature also two round table discussions focusing on Virtual Research Infrastructures which serve the Digital Humanities, and on Digital Humanities Summer Schools. All questions regarding the programme of the Summer School, the selection of the participants as well as the selection of projects for eventual publication are handled by the international scientific committee of the European Summer School composed of: · Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow (Great Britain) · Alex Bia, Universidad Miguel Hernández in Elche (Spain) · Dino Buzzetti, Università di Bologna (Italy) · Elisabeth Burr, Universität Leipzig (Germany) · Laszlo Hunyadi, University of Debrecen (Hungary) · Jan Rybicki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraków (Poland) · Corinne Welger-Barboza, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) For important dates and other relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the European Summer School “Culture & Technology”: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. Elisabeth Burr Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/quebec/ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gal2010 http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr/JISU/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 22:49:05 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDF92819F5; Sun, 13 May 2012 22:49:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 17A1A2819DE; Sun, 13 May 2012 22:49:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120513224903.17A1A2819DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 22:49:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.20 taxonomy: Milic's article X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 20. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 08:43:34 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: taxonomy: Milic's article Apologies to all: the posted message in Humanist 26.17 contained a link not to Louis Milic's "The Next Step" but to the message itself. Apparently I do not understand the mechanism. So rather than spend time with it, I am simply pasting in the text below. Yours, WM ----- The Next Step By Louis T. Milic Computers and the Humanities 1.1 (1966) With the inauguration of Computers and the Humanities, the time has perhaps arrived for a more serious look at the position of the humanistic scholar in the world of data processing. There have been a dozen conferences on the subject, the proceedings of two of which have been published, with another in the press. Courses in programming for humanists are being talked about, and perhaps given, in several institutions. A book devoted exclusively to matters of literary style treated with computers--a kind of manual of the subject--has just seen the light in Ohio. And finally, this Newsletter has been established to bring together the humanists who may be interested in the use of data-processing machines. It may not be premature to say that we are past the first phase, when to admit that you were working on a literary problem with the help of a computer was equivalent to saying that you were an eccentric, at the very least, and possibly an underminer of the liberal tradition. We are now moving into the phase of consolidation. As students of the mystique of technology have pointed out, technological innovations and new inventions always begin out of step. Motion pictures at first were merely photographed plays and early television was based on a blending of the techniques of radio and film. The first printed books tried closely to imitate the appearance of hand-copied books. Most of the books printed long after the invention of the printing press were not contemporary literature but classics and medieval works. It was as if it had been realized that now the old texts could be made available. But no one thought of the press as providing the writers of the day with a means of reaching an audience. That came much later. The rationale of such a process is a compound of caution and innocence. The consumers of the new product are less likely to be alarmed if the appearance of the new does not jar with the familiar. And inevitably the possibilities of the new medium have not been fully grasped by those who employ it. The process of consolidation is the beginning of a realization of the advantages of the new technology. Similarly, the consolidation phase of computer-aided study in the humanities is beginning to provide us with all the good things we have been lacking for so long. Concordances of the poets are rolling off the presses, huge collation jobs are resulting in variorum editions of incredible complexity, bibliographies and indexes of abstracts are becoming available in satisfactory numbers, though perhaps not fast enough to keep up with the information explosion. I have heard that even publishers of dictionaries, the conservatives in a conservative field, have turned to the machines. Moreover we have been promised much more in the same line, editions of everything, concord- ances and indices verborum of everyone, computerized bibliographies, auto-indexing, automated libraries--the automatic world, in short. These will be good things and scholars look forward to them, but satisfaction with such limited objectives denotes a real shortage of imagination among us. We are still not thinking of the computer as anything but a myriad of clerks or assistants in one convenient console. Most of the results I have just described could have been accomplished with the available means of half a century ago. We do not yet understand the true nature of the computer. And we have not yet begun to think in ways appropriate to the nature of this machine. In a manner of speaking, the existence of computers has already had some influence on the thinking of humanistic scholars. They have perceived, as already noted, how easily a computer can perform the brute labor of scholarship: the leg work, the look-up time, tke collation, the entering, the endless replication of much of the scholar's task. Consequently, the scholar's interest has begun to shift in the direction of this type of work, partly because of the availability of programs for it and partly because of the huge increase in the amount of material the scholar must handle, which puts a high premium on simple labor-saving. Beyond this, the manner of thinking of scholars who have been affected by computers has also been modified. The demands of the machine have forced scholars in the direction of more explicit statement, because programs cannot be vague and tentative; of more modular statement, because programming, debugging and revising can be done more economically if a problem is sectioned into modules; of more pragmatic statement, because existing models of computer research in the humanities derive from the obiective and quantitative paradigms of the sciences. In addition, the dependence of the scholar on the programmer has worked to simplify and perhaps denature his research. The programmer is not a mholar; he is the attendant of the machine. Essentially, he reduces any project for research in humanistic fields to the mechanistic level which is most congenial to him. As long as the scholar is dependent on the programmer, he will be held to projects which do not begin to take account of the real complexity and the potential beauty of the instrument. Our fear that the study of literature may become mechanical if it is processed by a computer has kept us from trying to understand its rich and genuine possibilities. Unless we try to understand it in the way in which as scholars we try to comprehend any of our tools, we shall not only be incapable of exploiting its resources properly, but we shall be in danger of becoming its victims. Control comes from understanding, from a fusion of the user and the instrument, like the arm and the saber, the rider and his mount. The true nature of the machine is unknown to us, but it is neither a human brain nor a mechanical clerk. The computer has a logic of its own, one which the scholar must master if he is to benefit from his relations with it. Its intelligence and ours must be made complementary, not antagonistic or subservient to each other. For example, understanding in the arts and letters is based on the perception, identification and recognition of patterns. But the patterns must be small and traditional enough to be perceived by the human apparatus. Thus we have no trouble with certain musical progressions and rhythms, prosodic features in poetry, or color and form patterning in graphic or plastic art. Architecture, because of the dimensions of the object, begins to inhibit our perception of the relations. Perhaps for that reason Aristotle questioned whether a large object could be beautiful. In literature, we sense this when we read a long novel. Unlike the human perceiver, however, the computer can be made to detect the longest and best-concealed pattern, no matter how random an appearance it presents to the human eye. Thus, we must learn to ask it larger questions than we can answer and to detect what escapes our unaided senses. This may involve not only proposing old questions in new ways but even thinking up new questions. The computer can be made an extension of man only if it opens avenues we have not suspected the existence of. Thinking in a new way is not an easy accomplishment. It means reorientation of all the coordinates of our existence. Necessarily, therefore, our first motions in that direction are likely to be tentative and fumbling. The most interesting direction, to my mind, for this new work to take is in the imitation of the process of literary composition. For a long time, we have asked ourselves how the mind worked when it tried to articulate its experience with linguistic symbols. Many kinds of analysis (grammatical, 3tatistical, psychological) nave provided us with only a fractional insight into this mystery. The notable failure of machine translation has been paradoxically a very instructive development. Computers were instructed to behave like human translators, and ~hey could not. What was learned about the complexity of linguistic structure, however, far exceeds what might have been gained from translating Chinese or Russian political speeches or scientific papers. That use of the computer was constructive, if not creative. It moved in the direction of synthesis rather than analysis. Interesting synthetic beginnings have been made. The music people have been the most imaginative, possibly because of the formal nature of their field, which makes the generation of artificial music less affected by cognitive aspects than the generation of poetry, for example. The musicians have the advantage that they are not bound, as literary scholars are, to literary modes of creation or investigation. Electronic music, synthesis of classical models, new sounds--these all represent departures from a concept of the computer as a mechanical clerk. Despite the odium which is likely to greet such an attempt, I should like to see the next step in literary computation to be truly imaginative. Attempts have been made to program computers to write poetry but always it seems to me with a sense of shame. A more serious effort ought perhaps to be made involving a genuine willingness to put the creative powers of the computer to the test. The generation of poetry or of music is obviously not an end in itself. The creation of graphic designs by means of random number sequences is not intended to surpass human performance. These and other creative uses of the computer are trials of strength, estimates of capability. As scholars involved primarily and ultimately with the mystery of the creative act, we are always responsive to what we can learn about the creative process. Making simple models which can produce music, language, design is only a primitive stage of this investigation. Far more complex models with considerable autonomy, self-correction and even introspection can be visualized. Such speculations are not fantastic; they are at the border of reality. By abandoning our conception of the computer as merely a mechanical clerk suited mostly to repetitive routine operations, by learning to know its features, uses, limitations and possibilities--its nature, in short--we shall be properly re-organizing our thinking for the new age. What the computer will enable us to do in our humanistic tasks has hardly been imagined yet. Even immoderate speculation tends to fall behind the new reality. ----- -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, 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 15 00:21:36 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48A0282229; Tue, 15 May 2012 00:21:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 20F5F28221F; Tue, 15 May 2012 00:21:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120515002134.20F5F28221F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 00:21:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.21 new publication: LLC 27.2 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 21. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 09:55:21 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 27.2 Literary and Linguistic Computing Table of Contents Alert Vol. 27, No. 2 June 2012 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol27/issue2/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Transcription maximized; expense minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham* Tim Causer, Justin Tonra, and Valerie Wallace pp. 119-137 Automatic prediction of gender, political affiliation, and age in Swedish politicians from the wording of their speeches--A comparative study of classifiability Mats Dahllof pp. 139-153 Design and implementation of an electronic lexicon for Modern Greek Panagiotis Gakis, Christos Panagiotakopoulos, Kyriakos Sgarbas, and Christos Tsalidis pp. 155-169 Graph model of Old Chinese phonological system and computing Jiajia Hu and Ning Wang pp. 171-181 Detecting authorship deception: a supervised machine learning approach using author writeprints Lisa Pearl and Mark Steyvers pp. 183-196 Co-occurrence-based indicators for authorship analysis Takafumi Suzuki, Shuntaro Kawamura, Fuyuki Yoshikane, Kyo Kageura, and Akiko Aizawa pp. 197-214 Advancing aesthetic literary experience through a multimedia project Zainor Izat Zainal and Ann Rosnida Mohd Deni pp. 215-226 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ---------------------------------------------------------------- Quantitative Linguistic Computing with Perl. Fengxiang Fan, Yaochen Deng. Lei Lei pp. 227-230 How To Do Things With Videogames. Ian Bogost. Ken S. McAllister pp. 230-232 Text and Genre in Reconstruction. Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviour, Products and Institutions. Willard McCarty (ed). Thorsten Ries pp. 232-235 Ce qui compte. Methodes statistiques. Ecrits choisis, tome II. Etienne Brunet (edited by Celine Poudat). Laurent Romary pp. 235-238 -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, 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 15 00:26:00 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9DF2822AC; Tue, 15 May 2012 00:26:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CDCEF2822A4; Tue, 15 May 2012 00:25:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120515002558.CDCEF2822A4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 00:25:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.22 events: storage; resources; TEI; visualisation; the post-digital (!) 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Faith Lawrence (39) Subject: Free workshop 23 May: Collaborative working using open research data to create open educational resources for the humanities [2] From: "Pierazzo, Elena" (19) Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting: deadline extension and conference URL [3] From: Francisco Javier Garcia Blas (48) Subject: CFP: 4th Workshop on Interfaces and Abstractions for ScientificData Storage (IASDS 2012) [4] From: European Science Foundation (17) Subject: Invitation to Apply: Images and Visualisation Conference [5] From: kcl - digitalhumanities (29) Subject: Alpha-ville Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 11:53:21 +0100 From: Faith Lawrence Subject: Free workshop 23 May: Collaborative working using open research data to create open educational resources for the humanities In-Reply-To: *Collaborative working using open research data to create open educational resources for the humanities * ***Free** workshop* This local event is part of the Higher Education Academy Open Education Resources seminar series. The focus of this workshop will be to show the benefits of publishing research data openly, and to show how one set of data collected for a single discipline can be used in different ways to create Open Educational Resources with varied content across the humanities. It will be an interactive session which will involve presentations, discussion and hands-on activities. Key aims:**** - To disseminate the ongoing work of the OpenLIVES project team, who will talk about their direct experience of publishing historical research data openly, and their collaboration in the creation of OERs using this data **** - To stimulate discussion around the issues and challenges of publishing research data openly, and the issues inherent in re-using the data/work of others**** - To offer practical tips from experience on how to re-use data to create OERs on different topics and purposes**** - To give hands-on practice using the core data with a new OER remixing tool**** Date: Wednesday 23 May, 2012**** Time: 10 – 4pm, including lunch and refreshments**** Venue: 65/2151 (smart classroom)**** ** ** Facilitators: Alicia Pozo-Gutierrez and Irina Nelson (Southampton), Antonio Martinez-Arboleda (Leeds), Miguel Arrebola (Portsmouth), Kate Borthwick (LLAS)**** ** ** To register, go to: http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6606 **** ** ** ---------------**** Kate Borthwick Academic Coordinator**** ** ** LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus (Bdg 65a), Southampton, SO17 1BJ Tel: 02380 59 9681 @KBorthwick**** --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:33:00 +0100 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting: deadline extension and conference URL In-Reply-To: TEI Conference and Members Meeting Please notice that the deadline for the submission of papers and workshops/training proposals has been extended: the new deadline is not the 31st of May. I take this opportunity to announce the URL of the Conference website: http://idhmc.tamu.edu/teiconference/ Please notice that conftool is not yet operational, but we are confident it will be very shortly. Apologies for any inconvenience that this delay may have caused. We will announce the availability of conftool via email and on the website. Best wishes For the International Porgramme Committee Elena ________________________________ Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Chair of Teaching Committee Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207-848-1949 Fax: 0207-848-2980 elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:04:21 +0100 From: Francisco Javier Garcia Blas Subject: CFP: 4th Workshop on Interfaces and Abstractions for ScientificData Storage (IASDS 2012) In-Reply-To: 4th Workshop on Interfaces and Architectures for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS) http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds12 September 24 2012, held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2012 in Beijing, China --------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2012 --------------------------------------- High-performance computing simulations and large scientific experiments generate tens of terabytes of data, and these data sizes grow each year. Existing systems for storing, managing, and analyzing data are being pushed to their limits by these applications, and new techniques are necessary to enable efficient data processing for future simulations and experiments. This workshop will provide a forum for engineers and scientists to present and discuss their most recent work related to the storage, management, and analysis of data for scientific workloads. Emphasis will be placed on forward-looking approaches to tackle the challenges of storage at extreme scale or to provide better abstractions for use in scientific workloads. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * parallel file systems* scientific databases * active storage * scientific I/O middleware * extreme scale storage Past Workshops: IASDS 2011, Austin: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds11/agenda.php IASDS 2010, Crete: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds10/agenda.php IASDS 2009, New Orleans: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds09/agenda.php Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2012 Author Notification: June 22, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: July 7, 2012 Workshop: September 24, 2012 Submission Info: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds12/submissions/ Workshop Chairs: Philip Carns, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory (carns@mcs.anl.gov) Osamu Tatebe, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba (tatebe@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp) Program Committee: Francisco Javier García Blas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Philip Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba Hiroya Matsuba, Hitachi Carlos Maltzahn, UCSC & Ultra-scale Research Center at New Mexico Consortium Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Yoshihiro Oyama, University of Electro-Communications Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba Andrew Uselton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Pete Wyckoff, NetApp, Inc. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 15:00:25 +0100 From: European Science Foundation Subject: Invitation to Apply: Images and Visualisation Conference In-Reply-To: Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust 17 - 21 September 2012 Linköping, Sweden Chaired by: Brigitte Nerlich, Nottingham Uni., UK Andrew Balmer, Manchester Uni., UK Annamaria Carusi, Oxford Uni., UK This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University (LiU). Both Leonardo da Vinci and John Constable claimed that painting is a science. This science has been explored extensively in traditional aesthetics and art history. Given recent advances in science and visual engineering, creating images for science, of science and for the translation (interpretation) of science has become at one and the same time commonplace, even easy, and even more scientific. The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from across the natural and social sciences, with curators, artists, producers and users of images based on advanced visual engineering. Senior and emerging researchers and experts are invited to apply. Grants for Young and Early Stage Researchers and experts available. Submission Deadline: 06 June 2012 Further information can be found at: www.esf.org/conferences/12385 Please circulate this announcement among your colleagues and contacts --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:29:38 +0100 From: kcl - digitalhumanities Subject: Alpha-ville Call for Papers In-Reply-To: Alpha-ville is the London International Festival of Post-digital Culture. The festival presents a unique combination of advanced music, films, design, digital and new media art exhibitions, community events, urban interventions, workshops, labs and a Symposium on Post-digital Culture. The 4th edition will take place in London from 3-7 October 2012. 2012 THEME: 'Unfinity' We live in a unique moment in history, between two rapidly changing worlds. One is the world of decaying political and economic structures and the other is the world of an infinite explosion in technology and information. There are conflicting mindsets in every part of our culture: the contradiction between ubiquitous virtual presence and physical presence creating an identity crisis; the non-hierarchical, organic web structure clashing with hierarchical, non-organic real-world structures; the myth of the individual as a genius vs the power of the crowd and the collaborative practice; the passive and observant attitude set against active participation and co-creation. These opposing forces are placing us in a paradoxical state that we have named Unfinity. Unfinity is a pull between these poles, a hybrid space. It’s timeless and uncertain. We believe that to ease the state of Unfinity in a human and meaningful way it is crucial to be creative, to experiment, to challenge and take action. Alpha-ville 2012 invites artists, designers, thinkers, digital and non-digital people to consider, participate in, create and express what will be the next steps for building an alternative future that, we hope, will belong to the people. KEYWORDS Timeless, Hybrid, Infinity, Code, Data, Body, Physicality, Space, Clould Culture, Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality, Experimentation, Unfinished, Future of Art, New Aesthetic, Failure, Prototype, Interactivity, Democratisation, Activism, Hacktivism, Avatars, 3D Printing, Openweb, Smart Cities, Sustainability, Internet of Things, Censorship, Privacy, Identity, Grassroots, Uncertainty, Collaborative Design, DIY, Active Citizenship... DEADLINES Submissions close on Friday 22nd June 2012 Moving Image Submissions will close on Sunday 15th July 2012 http://www.alpha-ville.co.uk/submissions/ Proposals are accepted for the following categories: Music/Sound AV Performances Lab, Hack Event or Meet-up Moving Image Public Interventions New Media Art/Multimedia Projects Critical: Talks, Panels, Workshops, Presentations, Academic Papers ________________________________ Project Officer Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London 2nd Floor | 26-29 Drury Lane | London | WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2931 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Email: digitalhumanities@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 15 19:32:20 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0B628144D; Tue, 15 May 2012 19:32:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 35530281444; Tue, 15 May 2012 19:32:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120515193219.35530281444@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 19:32:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.23 job at Cambridge; dissertation prize X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 23. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "A. Herzig" (77) Subject: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2012 new call for nominations [2] From: "S.J. Schaffer" (22) Subject: Board of Longitude project: digital resources engagement officer --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 09:03:00 +0100 From: "A. Herzig" Subject: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2012 new call for nominations E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: 2012 new call for nominations Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information, http://www.folli.org) awards the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree in the year 2011. The dissertations will be judged on technical depth and strength, originality, and impact made in at least two of three fields of Logic, Language, and Computation. Interdisciplinarity is an important feature of the theses competing for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize. Who qualifies. Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st, 2011. There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university where the Ph.D. was granted. After a careful consideration, FoLLI has decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Dissertations produced in 2011 but not written in English or not translated will be allowed for submission, after translation, also with the call next year (for dissertations defended in 2012). The present call for nominations for the E.W. Beth Disertation Award 2012 will also accept nominations of full English translations of theses originally written in another language than English and defended in 2010 or 2011. Prize. The prize consists of: -a certificate -a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation -an invitation to submit the thesis (or a revised version of it) to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). For further information on this series see the FoLLI site. How to submit. Only electronic submissions are accepted. The following documents are required: 1. The thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. A ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. A letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to buszko@amu.edu.pl. Hard copy submissions are not admitted. In case of any problems with the email submission or a lack of notification within three working days, nominators should write to buszko@amu.edu.pl. Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: May 1, 2012. Extended: June 30, 2012. Notification of Decision: July 31, 2012. Explanation: Due to some technical obstacles, the first call for nominations was announced on the site of FoLLI in the beginning of March 2012 but not widely distributed through mailing lists. Therefore we essentially prolong the deadline now. We ask all potential nominators to inform the chair earlier by a mail to buszko@amu.edu.pl, even before having completed the required documents. Committee : Chris Barker (New York) Wojciech Buszkowski (chair) (Poznan) Dale Miller (Palaiseau) Larry Moss (Bloomington) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) Ruy de Queiroz (Recife) Giovanni Sambin (Padua) Rob van der Sandt (Nijmegen) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) Heinrich Wansing (Bochum) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 16:25:23 +0100 From: "S.J. Schaffer" Subject: Board of Longitude project: digital resources engagement officer Royal Museums Greenwich in partnership with Cambridge University is developing a JISC-funded project, 'Navigating 18th-Century Science and Technology: The Board of Longitude', which will create an online resource based on the extraordinary archives of the British Board of Longitude (1714-1828). The proposed resource will draw on and make links between important collections held at Cambridge University Library (CUL) and Royal Museum's Greenwich (RMG). A key role in the development and delivery of the project will be the one-year, full-time position of Digital Resources Engagement Officer, who will forge the links between the partner collections and create engaging digital learning resources for a broad audience base. Job description The post-holder will develop project-linked digital content and programmes for learning across all audiences, widening access to and participation in the partners' collections. They will work closely with colleagues in the Curatorial, Learning and Interpretation and Digital Media departments of the RMG, and liaise with CUL and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge. for details and application forms go to http://www.rmg.co.uk/about/job-opportunities/digital-resources-engagement-officer Salary: £20,250 - £28,250 Closing date for applications: 27 May 2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 15 19:33:42 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBB328195A; Tue, 15 May 2012 19:33:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0B4DD28153C; Tue, 15 May 2012 19:33:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120515193340.0B4DD28153C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 19:33:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.24 cfp: on the Mandala Browser X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 24. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:06:42 +0000 From: "Stefan Sinclair, Prof" Subject: CFP for Mandala Browser Collection Dear colleagues, The Mandala Browser is a sophisticated visualization interface designed specifically for digital humanities scholarship. Originally conceived as a tool for literary and historical scholars working on hypothesis formulation involving primary materials encoded in XML, the Mandala Browser is a rich-prospect interface tool – visually representing all items in a collection – that allows users to create sophisticated Boolean queries through an iterative process. One of the most innovative aspects of the Mandala Browser is the way it visually represents the interaction between search results from multiple queries. We invite proposals for a collection of essays entitled Using the Mandala Browser for Algorithmic Criticism. Essays should demonstrate a use of the Mandala Browser for qualitative or quantitative research (the Mandala need not be the only tool used and described in the essay, but it should represent a significant portion of the work). For further details or to submit a statement of intent (about 200 words), please contact the editors, Teresa Dobson or Stéfan Sinclair. Short statements of intent are due by June 15, 2012 (full article drafts for accepted proposals will be end of December 31, 2012). For more information about the Mandala Browser and to download the current beta version, please visit http://mandala.humviz.org/ Stéfan -- Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities Office 341, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, McGill University 688 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1 Tel. 514-398-4984 http://stefansinclair.name/ (Twitter: @sgsinclair) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 15 19:35:36 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8638281C6B; Tue, 15 May 2012 19:35:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A571281C3C; Tue, 15 May 2012 19:35:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120515193535.6A571281C3C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 19:35:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.25 events: visualisation & arts; religious texts; Winter 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. 26, No. 25. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Eric Atwell (68) Subject: Language Resources and Evalution for Religious Texts - LRE- RelWorkshop, LREC Istanbul 22 May 2012 [2] From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" (28) Subject: EVA London 2012: Research workshop [3] From: Jennifer Guiliano (65) Subject: Announcing the Digital Humanities Winter Institute @MITH --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 10:48:47 +0100 (BST) From: Eric Atwell Subject: Language Resources and Evalution for Religious Texts - LRE-RelWorkshop, LREC Istanbul 22 May 2012 In-Reply-To: <0C13615B-177C-45E3-89FB-D08130AF4E62@cs.vassar.edu> LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: LREC'2012 workshop: LRE-Rel, Tue 22 May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey Language Resources and Evalution for Religious Texts http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel.html http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/lre-rel/lre-relProceedings.pdf TO REGISTER: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Registration- LRE-Rel Workshop Programme Tuesday 22 May 2012 09:00 - 10:30: Session 1 Papers 09:00 Eric Atwell, Claire Brierley, and Majdi Sawalha (Workshop Chairs) Introduction to Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts 09.10 Harry Erwin and Michael Oakes Correspondence Analysis of the New Testament 09.30 Mohammad Hossein Elahimanesh, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli and Hossein Malekinezhad Automatic classification of Islamic Jurisprudence Categories 09.50 Nathan Ellis Rasmussen and Deryle Lonsdale Lexical Correspondences Between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint 10.10 Hossein Juzi, Ahmed Rabiei Zadeh, Ehsan Baraty and Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli A new framework for detecting similar texts in Islamic Hadith Corpora 10:30 - 11:20: Coffee break and Session 2 Posters Majid Asgari Bidhendi, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli and Hosein Jouzi Extracting person names from ancient Islamic Arabic texts Assem Chelli, Amar Balla and Taha Zerrouki Advanced Search in Quran: Classification and Proposition of All Possible Features Akbar Dastani, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, Mohammad Reza Vafaei and Hossein Juzi An Introduction to Noor Diacritized Corpus Karlheinz Morth, Claudia Resch, Thierry Declerck and Ulrike Czeitschner Linguistic and Semantic Annotation in Religious Memento Mori Literature Aida Mustapha, Zulkifli Mohd. Yusoff and Raja Jamilah Raja Yusof The Qur'an Corpus for Juzuk Amma Mohsen Shahmohammadi, Toktam Alizadeh, Mohammad Habibzadeh Bijani and Behrouz Minaei A framework for detecting Holy Quran inside Arabic and Persian texts Gurpreet Singh Letter-to-Sound Rules for Gurmukhi Panjabi (Pa): First step towards Text-to-Speech for Gurmukhi Sanja Stajner and Ruslan Mitkov Style of Religious Texts in 20th Century Daniel Stein Multi-Word Expressions in the Spanish Bhagavad Gita, Extracted with Local Grammars Based on Semantic Classes Nagwa Younis Through Lexicographers' Eyes: Does Morphology Count in Making Quranic Bilingual Dictionaries? Taha Zerrouki, Ammar Balla Reusability of Quranic document using XML 11:20 - 13:00: Session 3 Papers 11.20 Halim Sayoud Authorship Classification of two Old Arabic Religious Books Based on a Hierarchical Clustering 11.40 Liviu P. Dinu, Ion Resceanu, Anca Dinu and Alina Resceanu Some issues on the authorship identification in the Apostles' Epistles 12.00 John Lee, Simon S. M. Wong, Pui Ki Tang and Jonathan Webster A Greek-Chinese Interlinear of the New Testament Gospels 12.20 Soyara Zaidi, Ahmed Abdelali, Fatiha Sadat and Mohamed-Tayeb Laskri Hybrid Approach for Extracting Collocations from Arabic Quran Texts 12.40 Eric Atwell, Claire Brierley, and Majdi Sawalha (Workshop Chairs) Plenary Discussion 13:00 End of Workshop Eric Atwell, Associate Professor, Language research group, I-AIBS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Leeds LS2 9JT, England. TEL: 0113-3435430 FAX: 0113-3435468 WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nlp http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 09:03:46 +0000 From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" Subject: EVA London 2012: Research workshop In-Reply-To: <0C13615B-177C-45E3-89FB-D08130AF4E62@cs.vassar.edu> ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS LONDON 2012 Tuesday 10th July - Thursday 12th July 2012 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org RESEARCH WORKSHOP: A Postgraduate Student Research Workshop in the field of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts will be held at EVA London 2012 on Tuesday 10 July, 10.00 - 13.00. The Workshop provides an opportunity for Masters and PhD students working in the field of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts to give a 15 minute presentation on their ideas, plans or initial results in a supportive and relatively informal environment. Each presentation will be followed by 5 minutes Q&A/discussion. No written paper is required but if participants wish they may submit a short abstract to be published online. Participants at the Research Workshop may attend the main conference on 10 July free of charge. Numbers are limited, so you are encouraged to apply early to avoid disappointment. For more information visit www.eva-london.org For registration details, keynote speakers and the latest conference programme visit: www.eva-london.org *********************************************************** EVA London 2012 will debate the issues, discuss the trends and demonstrate the digital possibilities in culture, heritage and the arts. If you are interested in new technologies in the cultural sector - if you are an artist, policy maker, manager, researcher, practitioner, or educator - then this conference is for you. Three days of presentations, workshops, demos and exhibition on a spectrum of themes from electronic arts to experiencing history. This year's conference includes sessions on: * Museums in a new world * Seeing data * The place and the digital * Digital art and research * Sound and life * Building the virtual * Visualisation, maps and structures * Digital art and networked culture * Art and performance * Imaging * Digital imaging ** Plus five full sessions featuring live demonstrations ** Please note: as London is also hosting the Olympics this summer, we are suggesting that delegates book their hotel accommodation as soon as possible. A number of hotel rooms have been reserved for EVA London delegates through our accommodation partner innov8 Conference Services. Please find further details of this and other accommodation options at www.eva-london.org If this message was forwarded to you, join our mailing list to receive EVA London announcements (only) directly. Send an email to: listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 09:26:38 -0400 From: Jennifer Guiliano Subject: Announcing the Digital Humanities Winter Institute @MITH In-Reply-To: <0C13615B-177C-45E3-89FB-D08130AF4E62@cs.vassar.edu> *Announcing the Digital Humanities Winter Institute* *Join Us:* Monday January 7, 2013- Friday, January 11, 2013 University of Maryland College Park, MD USA MITH will host the first annual Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI) http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi , from Monday, January 7, 2013, to Friday, January 11, 2013, at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. We’re delighted to be expanding the model pioneered by the highly-successful Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI http://www.dhsi.org ) at the University of Victoria to the United States. DHWI will provide an opportunity for scholars to learn new skills relevant to different kinds of digital scholarship while mingling with like-minded colleagues in coursework, social events, and lectures during an intensive, week-long event located amid the many attractions of the Washington, D.C. region. Courses are open to all skill levels and will cater to many different interests. For the 2013 Institute we’ve assembled an amazing group of instructors http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=node/25 who will teach everything from introductory courses on project development and programming, to intermediate level courses on image analysis, teaching with multimedia, and data curation. DHWI will also feature more technically-advanced courses on text analysis and linked open data. We hope that the curricula http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=courses we’ve assembled will appeal to graduate students, faculty, librarians, and museum professionals as well as participants from government and non-governmental organizations. An exciting program of extracurricular events http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=dhwi_public_dh will accompany the formal DHWI courses to capitalize on the Institute’s proximity to the many cultural heritage organizations in the region. This stream of activities, which we’re calling “DHWI Public Digital Humanities,” will include an API workshop, a hack-a-thon, and opportunities to contribute videos and other materials to the 4Humanities http://humanistica.ualberta.ca/ campaign to document the importance of the humanities for contemporary society. Both the outward-looking DHWI Public Digital Humanities program and the week of high-caliber, in-depth digital humanities coursework will be kicked off by the Institute Lecture http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=keynote . This year’s speaker will be Seb Chan, currently the Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. We hope that many of you will join us this winter in Maryland for what promises to be a terrific event. Registration is now available at this site http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=registration . Like DHSI, we will be offering a limited number of sponsored student scholarships http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/?q=scholarships to help cover the cost of attending the Institute. The scholarships are made possible through the generosity of this year’s DHWI Instructors and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities To keep up with news and events related to DHWI, follow @dhwi_mith http://twitter.com/dhwi_mith . For all other enquiries, please contact Jennifer Guiliano, dhinstitute@umd.edu -- Jennifer Guiliano Assistant Director Email:guiliano@umd.edu Office Phone: (301) 405-9528 Skype: jenguiliano twitter: @jenguiliano website: http://mith.umd.edu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 16 21:01:00 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D0E28206B; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:00:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 75C9A282059; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:00:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120516210057.75C9A282059@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 21:00:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.26 jobs: at NYPL (US); UCD (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. 26, No. 26. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doug Reside (53) Subject: Job at NYPL Labs designing archival tool for video [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (24) Subject: lectureships --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 09:19:52 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Job at NYPL Labs designing archival tool for video The New York Public Library seeks a talented web applications developer to help build and launch a new web-based video archives environment as part of its new research and development unit, NYPL Labs. Us? A small, creative team at the heart of one of the world's great cultural institutions: exploring new technologies, imagining the future of research. You? A maker and experimenter game to help re-imagine a century-old organization. Able to build, test and debug in rapid iterations. Excited by performing arts archives and interested in figuring out ways to breathe new life into them digitally. Maybe you went to library school and liked coding more than cataloging, or maybe you’re tired of building coupon apps and want to focus on liberating data. Archives? The raw material of research and the building blocks of new knowledge. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is one of the largest and most used archival repositories of video documentation of dance and theater. Thousands of books, documentaries, and even new performances have been created out of our archives. The work? To modernize (and in some cases invent) the mechanisms for discovering and using the Library’s archival video material. The project will begin with prototyping around videos in the Library’s Dance collections. This model collection will lay the foundation for a broader library video service: a cornerstone of the Library's digital future. You’ll work at NYPL’s landmark central branch on 42nd Street as technical lead on an archives project team collaborating with senior curators and librarians. Expect frequent visits to the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and contact with dance historians, choreographers and the wider arts-tech community in New York. Skill set/qualifications: Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Web Development, Digital Design, or a related field Excellent knowledge of Javascript, including frameworks and techniques such as AJAX or JQuery Solid experience using scripting languages for building web applications (PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl) Expert level HTML and CSS skills Clear, acute writing style (there will be blogging and potentially other writing opportunities) Interest in libraries, archives and open source/open access culture a must Preferred: Expert knowledge of XML and XSLT strongly desired Some understanding of archival collections (from collection processing, management, or as a researcher) Some understanding of copyright and contract law. Knowledge of TEI, METS, MODS, and OAI-PMH Familiarity with streaming video and location-specific access restrictions Familiarity with the API of the commercial video streaming service, BrightCove, a plus. Position will report to the Manager of NYPL Labs, and work closely with the Digital Curator for the Performing Arts, Repository team, fellow Labs developers, and Senior Manager for Web Initiatives. This position is temporary for 12 months. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 14:58:17 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: lectureships In-Reply-To: <4FB3AF52.5090500@kcl.ac.uk> UCD College of Human Sciences UCD School of Information and Library Studies Lecturer in Information (Above the Bar) 5-year fixed-term appointment Ref: 005197 Applicants are invited for a fixed-term 5-year appointment as Lecturer in Information, UCD School of Information and Library Studies. The appointee will contribute significantly to the quality expansion of research in one or more of the following areas: health information, metadata & classification, information systems design and evaluation, social computing, user experience design, information design, digital youth, management in information organizations, digital libraries, information architecture, data science and/or related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures. Furthermore, in addition to research, s/he will also be required to participate effectively in the School’s educational programmes. Applicants should note it is anticipated interviews for this post will be held in September 2012, with a view to an appointee commencing in January 2013. 2010 Lecturer Scale (above the bar): €50,807 - €81,452 per annum 2011 Lecturer Scale (above the bar): €45,728 - €73,307 per annum* * Subject to all new entrants to public sector as of 01 January 2011 Appointment will be made on the minimum of the scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines. Further details including a complete Job Description and guidelines on how to apply on line for this appointment are available at: www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/ Closing date: 23.30hrs on Monday 16th July 2012 Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 11:30pm on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications. -- Anna Jordanous Research Associate Centre for e-Research King's College London +44 (0)20 7848 1988 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 16 21:05:04 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E972820FC; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:05:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A11172820EC; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:05:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120516210503.A11172820EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 21:05:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.27 publication: 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 27. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:09:24 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The May/June 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine is nowavailable Greetings: The May/June 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, six 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 Hampshire County Council Contemporary Art Collection. The articles include: Implementing DOIs for Research Data Article by Natasha Simons, Griffith University, Australia Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project Article by R. Niccole Westbrook and Dan Johnson, University of Houston Libraries; Karen Carter, Rutgers School of Communication and Information; Angela Lockwood, Texas Women's University School of Library and Information Studies BitCurator: Tools and Techniques for Digital Forensics in Collecting Institutions Article by Christopher A. Lee, Alexandra Chassanoff and Kam Woods, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Matthew Kirschenbaum and Porter Olsen, University of Maryland Information Bulletin on Variable Stars — Rich Content and Novel Services for an Enhanced Publication Article by Andras Holl, Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary 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 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. Each mirror site has its own schedule for replicating D-Lib Magazine and, while most sites are quite responsive, on occasion there could be a delay of as much as 24 hours between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 16 21:06:09 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A6B282142; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:06:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99546282132; Wed, 16 May 2012 21:06:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120516210608.99546282132@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 21:06:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.28 events: migration of biological ideas X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 28. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 21:45:09 +0000 From: Surman Jan Subject: CfP: Nomadic concepts: Biological concepts and their careers beyond biology In-Reply-To: Call for Papers Nomadic concepts: Biological concepts and their careers beyond biology Second Annual Conference of the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts in cooperation with the Department of History, Central European University in Budapest Dates: 18-19. October 2012 Venue: Herder Institute for the History of East-Central Europe Organizers: Peter Haslinger (Herder Institute, Marburg) Katalin Straner (CEU Budapest) Jan Surman (Warsaw) Renewed interest in the role of language in the history of natural sciences has, in the last years, brought fresh insight into the mechanisms of cultural and conceptual transfer both be­tween science and non-scientific knowledge and across disciplines. While this research has pre­dominantly concentrated on transgressions between literature and science, the textual and terminological side of these exchanges has been given less attention. Following the ideas of “nomadic” and “traveling” concepts (Isabelle Stengers, Mieke Bal) our aim is to follow concepts in the divergent (disciplinary, “national,” knowledge) cultures, observing and en­gaging with interactions between term, content and the linguistic environment. Using examples of biological terms/concepts, we seek to inquire how the exchanges with various, at first sight disconnected, fields and disciplines like religion, vernacular language, arts and literature have affected the form and content of these formations, and led to their modification, renaming, or differentiation from the original idea. Studies in the language of science have demonstrated how the professionalization and solidification of scientific reasoning in the nineteenth century resulted in what is often viewed as a disciplinary closure: the formation of disciplinary-specific vocabularies as well as the “ob­jectivising” metaphors concerned with the changes of philosophical presuppositions (Daston/Galison 2008). The increasingly universalist view of scientific thought, and the parti­cularist notions often embodied in the processes of the creation of national and/or dis­ci­plin­ary sets of terminologies and vocabularies have together created new narratives heavily im­bued with various interdisciplinary references. In the biological sciences Charles Darwin or Jacques Monod, in chemistry Lavoisier, in physics Heinrich Kayser and Werner Heisenberg engaged in an intensive dialogue with non-scientific fields in order to literalize their scientific findings. Notwithstanding the trends to present “objective” knowledge through specialized and aloof language, scientists use concepts from literature or religion to support and subs­tantiate their claims, and often also to visualize them and make them fit in the theoretical frameworks they work in. (Dörries 2002, Latour 2002, Gross 2002, 2006, Steinle 2006, Eggers/Rothe 2009). At the same time, however, conceptual instruments of biology have entered the public dis­course, arts and neighboring disciplines. Darwin's language, for instance, influenced through Spencer, the political imagination of the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries; the con­cepts of organism or tissue were employed in fields like sociology or architecture. Through their linguistic restrains, some concepts have been retained in some languages but not in others: the concept of milieu, for instance, is widely employed in French and German, but the use of this term remains limited in other languages – having different terms denoting the same concept alters its connotations and thus the concept itself. The conceptual and termi­nological trajectories of the language of bacteriology and the language of politics were dia­metrically different between, for example, German and French, despite parallel scientific backgrounds – while the first was militant, the second remained pacifistic. The borrowings of biological concepts and vocabulary thus remain largely language-based, developing distinct, partially divergent trajectories. In our conference we plan to look more closely at the development of biological vocabulary and concepts and their implementation in different linguistic environments. Our particular in­terest is to observe the sharpening and distinctions they experienced during the transition from one language to another, with respect to disciplinary, social and vernacular languages. Research questions: * What trajectories did the terms oscillating between biology and non-biological fields of knowledge follow? Was this a one-way movement, or did it remain reciprocal, with terms/ concepts remaining interdependent in different languages? * How did the process of translation change the original terms/concepts, e.g. by making their shortcomings, constraints or one-language-dependence visible? * In which ways did the authors and translators justify their choices when retaining or altering the terms? How conscious was the process of terminological alteration or reten­tion by conceptual borrowing? How was its role and possible consequences perceived? * To what extent did the vernacular language influence the textuality of biology? Were ver­na­cular and popularizing concepts filtered out or were they retained in the course of dis­ci­plinary development? How did this process change with the ongoing process of the in­ter­nalization of sciences? * To what extent did the textual/conceptual borrowings and consequently changed mean­ings and redefinitions play a role as auxiliary tools in re/conceptualizing scientific dis­co­ver­ies and theories? The organizers are particularly interested in comparative and trans-lingual approaches. Post­graduates are particularly encouraged to submit proposals for twenty-minute papers. The languages of the conference are English and German. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the organizers. The organizers plan to publish a selection of papers from this conference. Please e-mail a short abstracts or proposals with a brief CV to: Jan Surman (jan.surman@univie.ac.at) by 30. June 2012. Successful applicants will be notified by 15. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 16:37:20 +0100 From: Timothy Hill Subject: Natural Language Processing position at the Department of Digital Humanities, KCL Vacancy for a Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing (part-time 66 % FTE) King’s College London, Department of Digital Humanities The Centre for e-Research at King’s College London is seeking to appoint a research fellow to work on a pioneering project to measure the impact of texts over time. The successful candidate should specialise in the areas of text- and data mining, natural language processing, semantic web technologies, and database analysis and design. The postholder will spend two thirds of his or her time on leading the technical research and development work of the ImpactTracer project funded by the European Research Council in close liaison with the Principal Investigator of the project, Professor Christoph Meyer, and a research associate. The project aims to develop the proto-type of a web-application capable of measuring and visualising the impact of texts over time on other texts. The post will be based at the College’s Strand campus in the Drury Lane Building where the Centre for e-Research is located. Established in 2008, the Centre for e-Research (CeRch) is a research centre located in the Department of Digital Humanities in the School of Arts and Humanities, aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary, institutional, national and international collaboration. It works collaboratively with researchers, research teams and groups, and has partners in research projects across King’s College London. The post is available from 1 June 2012 and is fixed until 30 April 2013. The closing date for applications is 28 May 2012. Equality of opportunity is College policy Further Information: For an informal discussion of the post please contact Professor Christoph Meyer on 020 7848 2053, or via email at Christoph.meyer@kcl.ac.uk. Further details and application packs are available on the College’s website at www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs. All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number G7/AAH/391/12-JM. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 18 21:19:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B512829EC; Fri, 18 May 2012 21:19:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C22A2829DC; Fri, 18 May 2012 21:19:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120518211951.5C22A2829DC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 21:19:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.30 events: context; social media; opportunities & partnerships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 30. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: ARCOE Announcement (119) Subject: ARCOE-12: Third call for papers [2] From: Shawn Day (38) Subject: Announcing DRI/DERI/DHO/DARIAH Workshop: Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities [3] From: "Jordan, Timothy" (27) Subject: Digital and Social Media Conversation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 12:24:43 +0100 From: ARCOE Announcement Subject: ARCOE-12: Third call for papers Call for papers: Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning with Contextualized Knowledge, 4th International Workshop (ARCOE-12) http://www.arcoe.org/2012 held in collocation with 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-12) Montpellier, France -- Submission Open -- Submission now open via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe12 -- Important Dates -- Submission deadline: 28 May 2012 Notification: 28 June 2012 Camera ready: 15 July 2012 Early registration: 5 July 2012 Late registration: 8 August 2012 Workshop dates: 27-28 August 2012 -- Description of the workshop -- Dealing with context is one of the most interesting and most important problems faced in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Traditional AI applications often require to model, store, retrieve and reason about knowledge that holds within certain circumstances - the context. Without considering this contextual information, reasoning can easily run to problems such as: inconsistency, when considering knowledge in the wrong context; inefficiency, by considering knowledge irrelevant for a certain context; incompleteness, since an inference may depend on knowledge assumed in the context and not explicitly stated. Contextual information is also relevant in many tasks in knowledge representation and reasoning such as common-sense reasoning, dealing with inconsistency, ambiguity, and uncertainty, evolution, etc. In recent years, research in contextual knowledge representation and reasoning became more relevant in the areas of Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, and Ambient Intelligence, where knowledge is not considered a monolithic and static asset, but it is distributed in a network of interconnected heterogeneous and evolving knowledge resources. The ARCOE workshop aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers interested in these topics to discuss recent developments, important open issues, and future directions. -- Topics -- ARCOE-12 welcomes submissions on the topics below as well as on theirintersection and other topics related to acquisition, representation, reasoning with context and its applications. Philosophical and theoretical foundations of context: 1. What is context and how should it be represented. 2. Relevant types of contextual information and their properties. 3. Combining contextual information with object information for reasoning. 4. Context and common-sense reasoning. 5. Exploiting context in inconsistency and uncertainty handling, defeasible reasoning and argumentation. 6. Contextual logic programming. 7. Updating contextual knowledge and context-aware belief revision. 8. Frameworks for formalizing context and context-aware knowledge representation. Context modeling and contextual knowledge engineering: 1. Modeling of user's/agent's context. 2. Context driven organization of knowledge and modeling. 3. Ontologies for context modeling. 4. Context-aware modeling tools and methodology. 5. Comparisons to context-unaware modeling techniques. Effective reasoning with context: 1. Effective context-aware reasoning algorithms. 2. Distributed reasoning with context. 3. Context-driven heuristics in classical reasoning systems. 4. Reasoning under uncertainty and inconsitency. 5. Defeasible reasoning. 4. Hybrid formalisms for reasoning with context, including sub-symbolic contexts Applications of context in areas such as: 1. Agent communication and coordination. 2. Semantic Web and Linked Open Data. 3. Knowledge modularization. 4. Ontology matching. 5. Ontology fault diagnosis and repair. 6. Ontology evolution and versioning. 7. Information integration. 8. Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing. 9. Exploiting context in Web 2.0 applications, e-commerce, and e-learning. -- Submission Requirements -- Papers of two types can be submitted. Regular papers are intended for research reports and surveys. ARCOE also welcomes reports on significant work in progress which has already achieved some interesting partial results, as well as papers recently submitted or published elsewhere as long as their topic is in line with the workshop. Regular papers should not exceed 12 pages in length including references. Position papers are intended for presentation of interesting new open issues and challenges, and opinions on the status of the field. Position papers are limited to 6 pages including references. All papers must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html and submitted in PDF format via EasyChair using: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe12 The distinction during the selection-phase will be based on 1) Relevance, significance and quality of the submission; 2) The contribution's potential to foster cross-pollination and discussions on ARCOE main themes during the event. Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or as posters, depending on the choice of the program committee. However, all accepted papers will be included in the Working Notes in their full form and will be accessible via the Internet. -- Invited Talks -- * The role of context in controlling inconsistency - Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh * Multi context logics: a formal support for structuring knowledge - Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- * Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology * Martin Homola (primary contact), Comenius University, Bratislava * Alessandra Mileo, DERI, National University of Ireland * Ivan Jose Varzinczak, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa -- Steering Committee -- * Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology * Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento -- Resources -- ARCOE-12 website: http://www.arcoe.org/2012/ EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe12 ARCOE workshop series: http://www.arcoe.org/ ECAI-12 website: http://www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012/ Enquiries about the ARCOE workshop: arcoe [at] arcoe [dot] org Registration: http://www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=93 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 15:46:45 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Announcing DRI/DERI/DHO/DARIAH Workshop: Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities Date: Tuesday 23 October - Thursday 25 October 2012 Venue: Dublin and Maynooth, Ireland Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities A workshop jointly organised by: Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) The focus of this event is to engage academia, industry, cultural institutions and public bodies to identify the key research challenges in digital humanities, and to further build the academic-industry partnerships that will enable adoption of digital humanities skills, technologies and tools. This focus will extend to the innovative use of digital humanities technologies in the public sector demonstrating social benefit, such as the digitisation of the Irish census and the use of open linked public data. This is the first in a series of workshops targeting the industry-academic interface for identifying and realising the opportunities of the digital humanities. The event is jointly organised by the two major digital humanities national infrastructures (the DRI and the DHO), and the largest semantic web research Institute (DERI), together with a large-scale European digital infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH). During the three days, participants will expand their skills through a series of digital labs, lectures and masterclasses lead by subject matter experts, in the areas of data visualisation and in the application of linked data to leverage the semantic web for scholarly humanities research. This workshop will combine a day of hands-on practical application with master classes and lectures and a day long symposium drawing together academic and industry practitioners. Themes will include: • Data Visualisation and Data Analytics for Digital Humanities Scholarship • Leveraging Linked Data and the Semantic Web for Scholarly Research • IP and Licensing .... 'What You Can and Can't Do With Data' • Infrastructure and Data Modelling This event will take place in Dublin and Maynooth from Tuesday 23 October - Thursday 25 October 2012. Registration and programme details to be announced http://www.dri.ie/events/ For more information please email dri@ria.ie or phone +353 1 609 0674 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 15:42:43 +0100 From: "Jordan, Timothy" Subject: Digital and Social Media Conversation In-Reply-To: <21D2BBB463B30B48A110DC76EFE9723B31997C521F@KCL-MAIL03.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> Two events: (1) Digital and Social Media: a debate Thursday 24 May 2012, 6:00pm The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London Digital media technologies and their cultural, social and political impacts This debate will address developments in digital technologies that are shaping the public and private life of societies and citizens, and re-organizing cultural and political relations. * What kinds of digital technologies will emerge in the next 50 years – and what kind of technologies should we create? * How can we better understand the potential cultural, social and political impacts of these technologies? * Is the digital revolution producing a new cultural cleavage between the arts and sciences? What kinds of convergence can be, or should be developed? This conversation brings together computer scientists, communications, media and cultural theorists, sociologists, and artists to explore whether the old divide between the 'two cultures' of art and science is now re-inscribed in digital terms. Chair: Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts. Speakers: Professor Helga Nowotny, President of the European Research Council and Emerita Professor of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Professor Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York, and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Professor Tom Rodden, Professor of Interactive Systems at the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham. See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/fiftyyears/sussexconversations/digital for more information. (2) "Exploitation in Digital Networks" Professor Jodi Dean Anatomy Theatre Museum King's College London 23 May 2012 13:00-14:30 For more information see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/eventrecords/exploitation.aspx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 19 21:50:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314C1282F5C; Sat, 19 May 2012 21:50:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 07ED7282F51; Sat, 19 May 2012 21:50:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120519215034.07ED7282F51@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 21:50:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.31 events: memory; text-editing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 31. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Koen Vermeir (61) Subject: cfp: International symposium: "The digital subject: memory, hypermnesia" [2] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: Text Editing and Digital Culture --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:52:52 -0400 From: Koen Vermeir Subject: cfp: International symposium: "The digital subject: memory, hypermnesia" CALL FOR PAPERS International symposium: "The digital subject: memory, hypermnesia" University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, November 13-15, 2012 Organizers : Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Department of philosophy, LLCP, SPHERE, EA 4008) Claire Larsonneur (Department of anglophone studies, Le Texte Étranger, EA1569) Arnaud Regnauld (Department of anglophone studies, CRLC – Research Center on Literature and Cognition, EA1569) Please reply to: pierre.cassou-nogues@univ-lille3.fr Today's digital technologies of inscription and preservation have enabled the creation of substantial electronic archives and complex databases while ushering in new ways of archiving knowledge exemplified by collaborative encyclopedias. Such technical developments have foreshadowed a radical reconfiguration of human relations to the world and knowledge at large, and delineate a probable mutation in our understanding of the human subject. Hypermnesia, a recurrent motif in science fiction narratives, was already prefigured in H. G. Wells' (World Brain, 1937) or Borges' works ("Funes el memorioso," 1944). From then on, the notion has migrated into other literary genres, be they published in traditional print or in a digital medium. Similarly, the possible externalization and extension of memory is one of the cornerstones of contemporary philosophical theories (such as that of the "extended mind") on both sides of the border separating the analytical and continental schools of philosophy. Right after the Second World War, machine memory, the thematization of subjective memory in reference to computer memory, the potential alteration of the very nature of human memory due to the development of machines were recurrent issues in discussions pertaining to cybernetics and they are still vivid in the contemporary diagnosis of posthumanism. Of particular interest is the scope and typology of works featuring the theme of hypermnesia, from fantasies of omnipotence to rewritings of the Babel myth, to political, cultural and economic policy blueprints. This call for papers invites contributions from various fields and disciplines (the history of science and technology, literature, philosophy among others) which question the theme of hypermnesia and memory through the prism of the ambiguous relationship between man and machine, in a historical as well as in a more contemporary perspective. At the crossroads of philosophy, literature and the history of science and technology, this symposium is part of a broader long-term project focusing on the digital subject, a subject whose status and attributes appear to have been altered by the real or fictional development of digital calculating machines from Babbage to Internet. The working languages will be French and English. This symposium has received the support of the LABEX Arts-H2H scientific committee. Comité scientifique / Scientific committee : Yves Abrioux (Université Paris 8) Noelle Batt (Université Paris 8) Maarten Bullynck (Université Paris 8) Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Université Paris 8) Claire Larsonneur (Université Paris 8) Hélène Machinal (Université de Brest) Arnaud Regnauld (Université Paris 8) Mathieu Triclot (Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard) e-mail: pierre.cassou-nogues@univ-lille3.fr -- Koen Vermeir Senior Research Fellow, CNRS Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219), 5 rue Thomas Mann - Case 7093, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 12:21:44 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Text Editing and Digital Culture Text Editing and Digital Culture The 2102 book:logic Symposium 28 June 2012 The University of Western Australia Papers at the 2012 book:logic Symposium, “Text Editing and Digital Culture,” will investigate the promises and pitfalls of digital textuality, the changing role of the textual editor, and the intersections of textual studies and digital technologies within different cultures and literary traditions. Plenary speakers include Paul Eggert (Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales at ADFA) Alexander C. Y. Huang (Associate Professor of English, Theatre, and International Affairs, George Washington University; Research Affiliate in Literature, MIT) Fotis Jannidis (Professor of German Literature and Humanities Computing, University of Würzburg) Willard McCarty (Professor of Humanities Computing, King’s College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney). Attendance at this one day symposium is free, but numbers are limited. Registration is essential for catering purposes. To register, please contact the conveners, Professor Tim Dolin (t.dolin@curtin.edu.au) and Dr Brett Hirsch (brett.hirsch@uwa.edu.au). For more details about the symposium and its programme, visit http://www.notwithoutmustard.net/book-logic2012/ -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, 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 May 20 00:00:54 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C41282F57; Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 72221282F40; Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120520000051.72221282F40@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.32 recommendations for research? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 32. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 09:58:13 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: recommendations for research Dear colleagues, I am looking for a half-dozen research projects in the digital humanities to study for their probing of any sort of cultural artefact (literary text, painting, sculpture, musical work, dance performance etc) for the boundary between computationally tractable data and our notion of human cultural expression. I am particularly interested in any research in the digital humanities which provokes us to reconsider what we think is human about specific artefacts produced by humans. I want to find out how, under what circumstances, with what sort of results, computing forces us to refigure what we are. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 May 20 20:22:07 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F55C281653; Sun, 20 May 2012 20:22:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9EC63281642; Sun, 20 May 2012 20:22:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120520202204.9EC63281642@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:22:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.33 events: conftool for TEI conference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 33. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 18:19:04 +0100 From: Elena Pierazzo Subject: TEI Members Meeting and Conference: conftool available for submission Dear All, It is my greatest pleasure to announce that the web interface that manages the submissions (i.e. conftool) is finally up and running: you can upload your abstracts of papers, posters and workshops here: http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ If you have already an existing conftool account from previous TEI conferences you will be able to use the same, otherwise, please register in order to upload your submission. Just a kind reminder: the deadline for submission is the *31st of May*. Thank you very much for your patience and apologies if this delay has caused you any trouble. All best wishes For the International Programme Committee Elena Pierazzo -- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Chair of the Teaching Committee Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207-848-1949 Fax: 0207-848-2980 elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/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 Mon May 21 20:17:39 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41BE2819D7; Mon, 21 May 2012 20:17:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CA8882819B5; Mon, 21 May 2012 20:17:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120521201737.CA8882819B5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:17:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.34 publications: visualisation; underwater heritage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 34. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Diaz-Kommonen Lily (15) Subject: Underwater heritage [2] From: Willard McCarty (42) Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.1 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 18:38:07 +0000 From: Diaz-Kommonen Lily Subject: Underwater heritage Dear all, Systems of Representation research group, together with Master of Arts and Doctor of Arts students at the Media Lab Helsinki, in collaboration with archeologists and scholars at the National Board of Antiquities have completed an interactive virtual reality installation of the 18th Century Dutch vessel, Vrouw Maria. The simulation has been created as part of the exhibition Spoil of Riches – Stories of the Vrouw Maria and the St. Michel held at the Maritime Museum of Finland located in the grand Maritime Centre Vellamo in Kotka. The dates of the exhibition are 25 April – 02 December, 2012. Check out the website URL below, for more information about the project and to see a video of the installation. http://sysrep.org.aalto.fi/vrouwmaria/installation/ Best regards, Lily Díaz ……………………………... Prof. Lily Diaz-Kommonen Head of Research Media Lab Helsinki Department of Media Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture + 358 9 470 555 (FAX) > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 06:06:36 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.1 Visualization in the Age of Computerization Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.1 (March 2012) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2012/00000037/00000001/ 1. Editorial Carusi, Annamaria; Hoel, Aud Sissel; Webmoor, Timothy 1-3(3) 2. From Cognitive Amplifiers to Cognitive Prostheses: Understandings of the Material Basis of Cognition in Visual Analytics Arias-Hernandez, Richard; Green, Tera M; Fisher, Brian 4-18(15) 3. Visualizing Uncertainty: Anomalous Images in Science and Law Kruger, Erin 19-35(17) 4. Partial Perspectives in Astronomy: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality and Meshworks in Building Images of the Universe and Social Worlds Murillo, Luis Felipe R; Gu, Diane; Guillen, Reynal; Holbrook, Jarita; Traweek, Sharon 36-50(15) 5. Web-Visions as Controversy-Lenses Madsen, Anders Koed 51-68(18) 6. Interpreting Digital Images Beyond Just the Visual: Crossmodal Practices in Medieval Musicology Eden, Grace; Jirotka, Marina; Meyer, Eric T 69-85(17) 7. Image and Practice: Visualization in Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Spencer, Matt 86-100(15) -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 May 21 20:19:22 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13BA281B18; Mon, 21 May 2012 20:19:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C9DE3281B0C; Mon, 21 May 2012 20:19:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120521201920.C9DE3281B0C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:19:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.35 events: literary studies; Decoding Digital Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 35. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ryan Cordell (52) Subject: NEMLA CFP: The Literary Interventions of the Digital Humanities, A Pecha Kucha Roundtable [2] From: Richard Lewis (25) Subject: DDH London Meeting 30 May --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 08:12:05 -0500 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: NEMLA CFP: The Literary Interventions of the Digital Humanities, A Pecha Kucha Roundtable Dear Humanist Colleagues: I hope the CFP below will interest some of you interested in attending NEMLA in Boston next March. Abstracts are due by September 30, but I hoped to generate interest before folks disperse for the summer. The CFP is also listed here: http://nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp_american.html. Please note: the session has already been accepted to the conference, so accepted papers will be included in the program. Best, Ryan Cordell The Literary Interventions of the Digital Humanities: A Pecha Kucha Roundtable Digital humanists often tout their work as transformative to literary scholarship. Textual encoding, text mining, corpora analysis, and geospatial analysis all promise to shift our understanding of literary texts, historical periods, and cultural phenomena. Digital Humanities (DH) is certainly, as Stephen Ramsay recently quipped, the "hot thing." DH panels multiplied at the 2009, 2011, and 2012 MLA Conventions, and they received significant coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed each year. More English Departments are hiring digital humanists; digital humanities centers multiply across a range of institutions. Nevertheless, DH scholarship has not significantly influenced the vast body of literary scholarship. Few "traditional" scholars cite digital work as evidence for their claims; few DH articles appear in prominent literary journals. There's little conversation between the many DH panels at MLA and the many, many panels entirely unaffected by the digital humanities revolution. DH self-consciously fosters a "big-tent" philosophy of inclusion, but scholars outside of the big tent often see DH, rightly or wrongly, as a separate entity: a roped-off area even within disciplinary conferences like MLA. This roundtable aims to encourage dialogue between camps. The Digital Americanist Society seeks speakers who will---through the abbreviated, energetic Pecha Kucha presentation style---articulate a clear, interpretive intervention that digital scholarship has made (or could make) in their areas of study. Our goal will not be to describe the features, interface, or technologies of digital projects, but instead to demonstrate how those projects advance, supplement, or disrupt the scholarly conversations of our respective literary subfields. To that end, we encourage "non-DH" scholars whose work has benefited from DH scholarship to contribute; we welcome a diverse panel that exemplifies the dialogue we hope to champion. This roundtable will employ the dynamic Pecha Kucha presentation style. Panelists will each present using 20 slides that auto-advance every 20 seconds. Each talk, then, will last for 6 minutes and 40 seconds. The organizers will communicate extensively with accepted panelists before the conference to familiarize them with the Pecha Kucha format. We hope to organize a roundtable of 5-6 speakers, which means the formal presentations will take less than 45 minutes. This plan will leave ample time for conversation among the panelists, the moderator, and the audience. Submit abstracts to Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University, rccordell@gmail.com, by September 30, 2012. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 17:02:42 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: DDH London Meeting 30 May Decoding Digital Humanities (DDH) London will be meeting again on * Wednesday 30 May 18:00 * at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LH http://g.co/maps/vftpw This month we will be reading: McCarty, Willard (forthcoming). "The residue of uniqueness". The Cologne Dialogue on Digital Humanities @ Wahn Manor House, 2012. Historical Social Research - Historische Sozialforschung. http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/files/McCarty.pdf [pre-print] Please feel free to disseminate this announcement. You will be very welcome to join us for a drink and to discuss modelling, identity, and tech support. Best wishes, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London t: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 j: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li @: lewisrichard s: richardjlewis http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 22 19:45:31 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D792812A2; Tue, 22 May 2012 19:45:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 89EC2281293; Tue, 22 May 2012 19:45:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120522194529.89EC2281293@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:45:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.36 jobs: research developer at King's London; lecturer at UCD X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 36. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Judith Wusteman (30) Subject: lectureship [2] From: Peter Stokes (25) Subject: Vacancy: Research Developer,Digital Resource for Palaeography (DigiPal) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 08:37:41 +0100 From: Judith Wusteman Subject: lectureship UCD College of Human Sciences UCD School of Information and Library Studies Lecturer in Information (Above the Bar) 5-year fixed-term appointment Ref: 005197 Applicants are invited for a fixed-term 5-year appointment as Lecturer in Information, UCD School of Information and Library Studies. The appointee will contribute significantly to the quality expansion of research in one or more of the following areas: health information, metadata& classification, information systems design and evaluation, social computing, user experience design, information design, digital youth, management in information organizations, digital libraries, information architecture, data science and/or related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures. Furthermore, in addition to research, s/he will also be required to participate effectively in the School’s educational programmes. Applicants should note it is anticipated interviews for this post will be held in September 2012, with a view to an appointee commencing in January 2013. 2010 Lecturer Scale (above the bar): €50,807 - €81,452 per annum 2011 Lecturer Scale (above the bar): €45,728 - €73,307 per annum* * Subject to all new entrants to public sector as of 01 January 2011 Appointment will be made on the minimum of the scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines. Further details including a complete Job Description and guidelines on how to apply on line for this appointment are available at:www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/ Closing date: 23.30hrs on Monday 16th July 2012 Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 11:30pm on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications. -- Dr Judith Wusteman UCD School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland Tel: +353 1 716 7612 Fax: +353 1 716 1161 URL: http://www.ucd.ie/wusteman --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 14:09:26 +0100 From: Peter Stokes Subject: Vacancy: Research Developer,Digital Resource for Palaeography (DigiPal) With apologies for cross-posting, we are looking to recruit a full-time developer to work for two years on the DigiPal project at King's College London (http://digipal.eu). A summary and links to further details are below, but please feel free to contact me directly with informal questions. Best wishes, Peter Research Developer: Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic (DigiPal) Full-time contract for immediate start until 30 June 2014 Closing date: 10/6/2012 The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH), King's College London is looking for a highly motivated and technically sophisticated individual to work as a developer on the research project “Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic” (DigiPal: http://digipal.eu/), which is funded by the European Research Council. The position will involve designing and developing computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship in the study of medieval and ancient handwriting and documents. The successful candidate for this position will have wide experience in modelling structured data and developing tools to search, query, retrieve and display them using relational databases and related technologies; in designing, writing and modifying programs which facilitate content creation; and collaborating in the development of integrated interfaces for web publication. Experience in creating and manipulating structured data with a range of RDB-related and web-delivery standards and technologies (SQL, Django/Python, Javascript/JQuery) is essential. Familiarity with ontologies, text processing techniques and standards-compliant XHTML and CSS is highly desirable, as is experience in the modelling of humanities data, especially that relating to manuscripts and documents. In addition you will need to have an understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and you will be expected to make a contribution to the departmental research profile. The successful candidate will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English. Salary The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications, within the Grade 6 scale, currently £31,020 to £37,012 per annum, plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance. Further information For an informal discussion of the post please contact Dr Peter Stokes on +44(0)20 7848 2813, or via email at peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk. Further details and application packs are available on the College’s website at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=11761 . All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number R6/AAV/478/12-JM. -- Dr Peter Stokes Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 22 19:47:43 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280BF28131F; Tue, 22 May 2012 19:47:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AAE34281309; Tue, 22 May 2012 19:47:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120522194741.AAE34281309@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:47:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.37 events: history of the humanities; open access journals X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 37. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francesca Benatti (27) Subject: Open University Digital Humanities Seminar, 31 May [2] From: "Bod, Rens" (26) Subject: SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: "THE MAKING OF THE HUMANITIES III" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 09:44:37 +0100 From: Francesca Benatti Subject: Open University Digital Humanities Seminar, 31 May The Digital Humanities Thematic Research Network is pleased to announce the following event in its Digital Humanities in Practice seminar series: Transforming Scholarly Communications: Open Access Journals in the Humanities Date: 31 May 2012 Time: 12.00pm - 1.30pm Venue: MR1, 2, 3, Wilson A Ground Floor, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes Open Access publishing is an area of growing interest in the academic community. This seminar brings together scholars, librarians and publishers to discuss how Open Access publishing, especially in the area of journals, can contribute to the transformation of scholarly communications in the Humanities. Speakers: Nicola Dowson and Chris Biggs, Library ORO Team, 'Open access: The OU Library perspective' Trevor Fear and Jessica Hughes, Classical Studies Department, Open University, ‘Editors' perspectives: New Voices in Classical Reception Studies and Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies’ Paul Harwood, JISC Collections, ‘Still Open for business?' Scholarly publishers and OA in the humanities’ Roundtable discussion including Louise Dutnell, Oxford University Press. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, to book a place please email Heather Scott h.scott@open.ac.uk by 29 May 2012 For more information please go to the Open University Digital Humanities website http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/digital-humanities/index.shtml --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 10:48:47 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: "THE MAKING OF THE HUMANITIES III" SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: "THE MAKING OF THE HUMANITIES III" The third international conference on the history of the humanities, "The Making of the Humanities III", will take place at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, from 1 till 3 November 2012. See http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.blogspot.com/ GOAL OF THE CONFERENCE This is the third of a biennially organized conference that brings together scholars and historians of humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a comparative history of the humanities. Although histories of single humanities disciplines exist for quite some time, a comparative history has only very recently been investigated. THEME OF THE 2012 CONFERENCE The theme of the meeting in 2012 will be "The Making of the Modern Humanities", focusing on the period 1850-2000, as well as four general panel themes that cross all periods. Topics include all aspects of the history of philology, linguistics, literary studies, musicology, historiography, art history, theatre studies, (new) media studies and other humanities disciplines, with an emphasis on their mutual influences. PANELS In addition to the theme of this year’s meeting, there will be four general conference panels that cover all periods, areas and disciplines: Panel I: Objectivity in the Humanities Panel II: Methodology in the Humanities Panel III: The Search for Patterns in the Humanities Panel IV: The Sciences and the Humanities KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) John Joseph (University of Edinburgh) Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Jo Tollebeek (University of Leuven) SUBMISSIONS Papers can be submitted to the general theme or to one of the panels. Please indicate on your abstract whether you want your paper to be considered for the general theme or for one of the panels or both. Send your abstract of maximally 400 words to: HistoryHumanities@gmail.com Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 June 2012 For more information, see http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.blogspot.com/ ORGANIZATION Huizinga Institute of Cultural History (Working Group History of the Humanities) Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 23 21:36:27 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEC9282F80; Wed, 23 May 2012 21:36:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 93A73282F2C; Wed, 23 May 2012 21:36:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120523213624.93A73282F2C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 21:36:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.38 PhD studentships at Cork X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 38. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 09:08:39 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: CFA: Fully-Funded Doctoral Scholarships at UCC in Digital Arts andHumanities University College Cork invites applications for 5 four-year fully-funded doctoral studentships on selected topics with the structured PhD programme in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH). Successful candidates will be registered with the full-time inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme co-ordinated with an all-Irish university consortium. Candidates will pursue their individual research agendas within the program, related to specific project areas, for which they will develop proposals which they provide during the application process. Subject areas: Currently fellowships are available in History, English and Music. See http://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/grep/dah/ for specifics. While applications are open for any project, funding is available for projects related to the following collections within the university library: http://www.earlynewsnet.org/LIBRARY_PROJECTS_WEB/index.htm What is DAH? The ever-evolving developments in computing and their performative and analytical implications have brought about a quantum leap in arts and humanities research and practice. Digital Arts and Humanities is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention at the intersection of computing and information management with the arts and humanities. The DAH Structured PhD programme will create the research platform, the structures, partnerships and innovation models by which fourth-level researchers can engage with a wide range of stakeholders in order to contribute to the developing digital arts and humanities community world-wide, as participants and as leaders. Programme Structure Candidates will complete core, training and career development modules, including main modules shared across the consortium and others institutionally-based. The overall aim of the taught modules are threefold: 1) to introduce students to the history and theoretical issues in digital arts/humanities; 2) to provide the skills needed to apply advanced computational and information management paradigms to humanities/arts research; 3) to provide an enabling framework for students to develop generic and transferable skills to carry out their final research projects/dissertations. Year 1 of the four-year programme includes core and optional graduate education modules delivered in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Maynooth. These modules provide a grounding in essential research skills and transferable skills together with access to specialist topics. In years 2 and 3 work on PhD research projects is supplemented with access to elective modules. Year 3 features practical placements in industry, academic research environments or cultural institutions. University College Cork has a strong track record in Digital Humanities and has been a pioneer in the development of digital tools for language study and historiography. The College of Arts (CACSSS) has particular strengths in European and Irish history, Renaissance Studies, English language and literature, Music and musicology, among others. For further information contact: Brendan Dooley Professor of Renaissance Studies b.dooley@ucc.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 23 21:37:39 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E77282FD0; Wed, 23 May 2012 21:37:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DFC36282FBF; Wed, 23 May 2012 21:37:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120523213737.DFC36282FBF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 21:37:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.39 events: music encoding; teaching TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 39. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Raffaele Viglianti (58) Subject: MEI Summer Workshop [2] From: Julia Flanders (41) Subject: Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI (deadline approaching) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 20:51:45 +0100 From: Raffaele Viglianti Subject: MEI Summer Workshop Apologies for duplicate postings. We want to remind everyone about the MEI workshop to be held in Charlottesville in August. There are still opportunities for participation. Please re-distribute this to individuals and other mailing lists. The June 1 deadline is quickly approaching, so don't delay! MEI SUMMER WORKSHOP Interested in including music in your Digital Humanities project? The University of Virginia Library and the University of Paderborn are offering an opportunity to learn about the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), an increasingly important tool for digital humanities music research. Spend three days learning the fundamentals of using MEI for research, teaching, electronic publishing, and management of digital music collections. "Introduction to MEI," an intensive, three-day, hands-on workshop, will be offered Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 through Friday, August 24th, 2012 at the University of Virginia Library. Experts from the Music Encoding Initiative Council will teach the workshop, during which participants will learn about MEI history and design principles, tools for creating, editing, and rendering MEI, and techniques for customizing the MEI schema. Each day will include lectures, plenty of hands-on practice, and opportunities to address participant-specific issues. Attendees are encouraged to bring example material that they would like to encode. No previous experience with MEI or XML is required, but an understanding of music notation and other markup schemes, such as HTML and TEI, will be helpful. There are also no fees associated with this workshop, but participants must bear travel, housing, and food costs. To apply, visithttp://tinyurl.com/bs9e6oebefore June 1, 2012. The number of participants is limited, so apply early! Successful applicants will be notified of acceptance as soon as possible after June 1. Please address questions toinfo@music-encoding.org . GETTING THERE The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, VA, 110 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. and 68 miles west of Richmond. The city of Charlottesville is served by five airports: > Charlottesville (CHO) (http://www.gocho.com/) > Richmond International (RIC) (http://www.flyrichmond.com/) > Washington-Dulles (IAD) (http://www.metwashairports.com/dulles/dulles.htm http://www.metwashairports.com/dulles/dulles.htm ) > Reagan National (DCA) (http://www.metwashairports.com/reagan/reagan.htm http://www.metwashairports.com/reagan/reagan.htm ) > Baltimore Washington International (BWI) (http://www.bwiairport.com http://www.bwiairport.com/ ) The Amtrak station (http://www.amtrak.com http://www.amtrak.com/ ) is conveniently located one half-mile from the University. A map showing UVA's libraries and driving directions to Alderman Library are available athttp://www2.lib.virginia.edu/map/ http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/map/ . Additional maps of the University, such as accessibility and University Transit Service maps, are available at http://www.virginia.edu/Map/. -- Raffaele Viglianti PhD Student and Research Assistant Department of Digital Humanities King's College London --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 09:28:09 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI (deadline approaching) The June 1 registration deadline is coming soon for: Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI Brown University, August 20-22, 2012 Application deadline: June 1, 2012 **Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant, up to $1000 for graduate student participants.** As digital humanities increasingly gains profile in traditional humanities departments, teaching (with) text encoding is becoming of greater interest in graduate and even undergraduate teaching. For faculty with TEI projects of their own, or with a strong research interest in the TEI, the challenge is to design a digital humanities syllabus that is rigorously and usefully digital, and yet still focused on humanities content. To what extent can text encoding be a useful pedagogical instrument, and what kinds of concepts does it help to teach? What kinds of practical infrastructure and prior preparation are needed to support a course of this type? What broader critical ideas in digital humanities and in traditional humanities domains would form a strong context? In this seminar, participants will each work on a course of their own, with opportunities for the group to workshop each syllabus and discuss the course narrative and design. These seminars are part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are aimed at people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one, and are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific challenges in using TEI data effectively. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and solutions, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create sample materials (such as syllabi, docmentation, etc., as appropriate to the event). We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. To apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/neh_advanced_application.html Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 23 21:49:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D427E28217D; Wed, 23 May 2012 21:49:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EE29282173; Wed, 23 May 2012 21:49:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120523214914.0EE29282173@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 21:49:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.40 disciplinary paranoia? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 40. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 07:48:00 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: disciplinary paranoia Taking a cue from Richard Hofstadter's article "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", Harper’s Magazine, November 1964, then thinking about the fearful desire to live in a totally explained world where everything conspires to make sense, I am wondering about the reactions we encounter as digital humanists when approaching other disciplines for more than merely a momentary, delimited fling. When, to continue with the sexual metaphor, what we're after is not simply an affair but marriage. What I want to ask is this: how common is it for representatives of the other discipline to gather into themselves, to react in a way that suggests an anxiety about the coherence of their own field and how the digital humanities might threaten that putative coherence? Some disciplines are more confident than others, but I suspect that none is so sure of itself that it cannot be provoked into such anxiety by something which promises to change everything, as for the humanities the digital humanities does. Any sense in this? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 24 20:38:58 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8025628244A; Thu, 24 May 2012 20:38:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5823A282421; Thu, 24 May 2012 20:38:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120524203856.5823A282421@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 20:38:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.41 disciplinary paranoia; the taxonomy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 41. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (63) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.17 the taxonomy; preservation [2] From: Jascha Kessler (70) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.40 disciplinary paranoia? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 18:22:14 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.17 the taxonomy; preservation In-Reply-To: <20120513203048.F108D281F5B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I cannot answer your question whether we have taken the next step. I dare say the answer could go either way: there are too many unanswered questions implicit in it. However, I think it is worth noting a certain bias, if not in the question as stated, then at least in the way it is likely to be taken. By "computing", do we mean only what happens in and by the computer as such? Operations effected by means of algorithms applied to digital data? If so, I am afraid that nothing the computer does will be transformative, since it is by definition only more of the same. Organization, specification, automation, system: this is only industrial civilization, which we thought was going to be our servant -- back when the industrialist's fondest hope was that his child should become a Professor of Literature, and not the other way around -- but which becomes, increasingly, our governor as well as our dependent. I don't need to tell you about this. But if "computing" includes not only the things we have these machines do on our behalf, but those we do with them, then yes, I think the corner has been turned. Recently on this list we saw Joshua Day's iPad app "Attikos" recommended. It promises to give the poor reader of Ancient Greek access to the grammar books and dictionaries with the touch of a finger. Now, I don't know whether I will be able to improve my Greek significantly with its help: it doesn't give me any Sitzfleisch I don't already have. (It will probably be the weekend before I can try it: I am far too busy to do anything really important.) Yet maybe all that wearying turning of pages, and the resistance it inevitably brings, will be mitigated; the flicker of curiosity that brings me to Homer or Plato may have more of a chance to catch something. And even a modest incremental improvement in the chances that a young scholar can make headway through a reading of the Apology of Socrates may have repercussions we cannot calculate. Which leads me to the next thing: networking. One of the reasons things today, as you recently remarked, are going so incredibly far beyond what we could have imagined or hoped for ten years ago is that we are profiting from synergies. (I don't know why you had any doubts about this, while you have been so diligently fostering them: I certainly haven't!) So easily we think our efforts are isolated, but they have not been. Little bands of the like-minded: researchers, developers, creators, users -- pioneers and visionaries, any one of whom may have been disappointed (we see so far beyond what we can reach) and yet all of whom have figured out bits of this and that, made connections, or done only the most crucial thing: added an impulse, a motive. The network -- this medium -- has been the arena in which we have played. Is this "computing"? So I want and expect to see the next version of Attikos -- or someone else will do it -- expose its data format and document its semantics and APIs, so that digital humanists can load it with texts prepared for use by ourselves and for each other. But I don't have to worry about this either, or the similar resources (aimed at all levels) for the learning of Sanskrit or Classical Chinese poetry or musical composition, which we will be seeing in all kinds of media, electronic and otherwise. It is all inevitable. Best regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 19:09:34 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.40 disciplinary paranoia? In-Reply-To: <20120523214914.0EE29282173@woodward.joyent.us> A good question, Willard, though answer[s] there may be none, since who can tell what lurks in others? Even in ourselves. However, at an awards luncheon at UCLA yesterday, for the FIAT LUX Freshman seminars given freely with all topics open to the campus professoriat, even the Chancellor, I found myself seated between a geneticist, old friend, and a molecular biologist. Neither young or fearful men, but in 60s and 70. The molecular man, after coffee, remarked to me out of the blue: You know, the human immune system is 100% mysterious and unknown to us; we simply cannot say what goes on in each individual, though we know it is 100% sensitive to the tiniest entrance of a foreign molecule, protein, or whatever. How is that for a metaphor for the inherent paranoia by which living matter, things, and higher constructions like mammals defend themselves? Is it any surprise, a little digitization is threatening? Jascha Kessler On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 40. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 07:48:00 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: disciplinary paranoia > > Taking a cue from Richard Hofstadter's article "The Paranoid Style in > American Politics", Harper’s Magazine, November 1964, then thinking > about the fearful desire to live in a totally explained world where > everything conspires to make sense, I am wondering about the reactions > we encounter as digital humanists when approaching other disciplines for > more than merely a momentary, delimited fling. When, to continue with > the sexual metaphor, what we're after is not simply an affair but > marriage. What I want to ask is this: how common is it for > representatives of the other discipline to gather into themselves, to > react in a way that suggests an anxiety about the coherence of their own > field and how the digital humanities might threaten that putative > coherence? Some disciplines are more confident than others, but I > suspect that none is so sure of itself that it cannot be provoked into > such anxiety by something which promises to change everything, as for > the humanities the digital humanities does. > > Any sense in this? Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist > (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ > -- 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 Thu May 24 20:39:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3490282492; Thu, 24 May 2012 20:39:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6DA07282485; Thu, 24 May 2012 20:39:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120524203951.6DA07282485@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 20:39:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.42 events: DH2012; European Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 42. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jan Christoph Meister (22) Subject: Reminder: Early Bird registration period for DH 2012 expires on 31 May [2] From: Elisabeth Burr (112) Subject: "Culture & Technology" - 3rd European Summer School in Digital Humanities, 23 - 31 July 2012 University of Leipzig --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 13:09:04 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Reminder: Early Bird registration period for DH 2012 expires on 31 May In-Reply-To: <6E0EF7D8B571024486174132402216471DFCFCC067@KCL-MAIL03.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, please remember that the Early Bird registration period for DH 2012 will expire on 31 May. With eight weeks to go until the official opening on 17 July, a five strand academic program with some two hundred papers, panels, workshops and posters plus an exciting social program this year's event promises to become one of the most significant events in the annual DH calendar. Join the approx. 200 colleagues who have already registered and take advantage of the special early bird fee: Member – early registration: € 220 Member – late registration: € 260 Non-member: € 385 Student Member: € 50 Student Non-member: € 115 Workshops: Half day € 20, Full day € 35 For further details, please visit http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/registration/ We are looking forward to see you at the DH 2012 in Hamburg, 16 - 22 July 2012! With kind regards Chris Meister Katrin Schönert - Local Organizers - --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 17:12:58 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: "Culture & Technology" - 3rd European Summer School in Digital Humanities, 23 - 31 July 2012 University of Leipzig In-Reply-To: <6E0EF7D8B571024486174132402216471DFCFCC067@KCL-MAIL03.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> We are very happy to announce that the Volkswagen Foundation supports the European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" for the 3rd time 3rd European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" , 23 - 31 July 2012, University of Leipzig http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ Supported by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing the Summer School will take place at Leipzig University, Germany, from the 23rd to the 31st of July 2012. Deadline for application: 31st of May 2012. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the Summer School fees could be reduced considerably and a bursary scheme could be put into place. The Summer School is directed at 75 participants from all over Europe and beyond. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, and post docs from the Humanities, Engineering or Computer Sciences, as well as academics, librarians and technical assistants who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries or archives, or wish to do so are its target audience. The Summer School aims to provide a stimulating environment for discussing, learning and advancing knowledge and skills in the application of computer technologies to the Arts and Humanities, in libraries, archives, and similar fields. The Summer School seeks to integrate these activities into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, where questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds are asked. It further aims to provide insights into the complexity of humanistic data and the challenges the Humanities present for computer science and engineering and their further development. The Summer School takes place across 9 whole days. The intensive programme consists of workshops, daily public lectures, regular project presentations and poster sessions. The public lectures will seek to handle questions posed by the development of Virtual Research Infrastructures for the Humanities from the perspective of the Humanities, their own ways of working and their specific types of data. The workshop programme will be composed of 5 to 7 thematic strands. At the moment of writing the following workshops are being planned: * Computing Methods applied to DH: XML Markup and Document Structuring * Stylometry * Query in Text Corpora * Art history and the critical analysis of corpora * Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of multimodal human-human / human-machine communication * TextGrid * Project Management Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Information on how to apply for a place in one of the workshops and for a bursary can be found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/. Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and who submit a qualified project description. Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non-specialists can follow, and to support what they hope to learn from the summer school with good arguments. The Summer School will feature also two round table discussions focusing on Virtual Research Infrastructures which serve the Digital Humanities, and on Digital Humanities Summer Schools. Please note that we are planning to publish the projects which have been selected for presentation together with the lectures given by our internationally renowned specialists. All questions regarding the programme of the Summer School, the selection of the participants as well as the selection of projects for eventual publication are handled by the international scientific committee of the European Summer School composed of: · Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow (Great Britain) · Alex Bia, Universidad Miguel Hernández in Elche (Spain) · Dino Buzzetti, Università di Bologna (Italy) · Elisabeth Burr, Universität Leipzig (Germany) · Laszlo Hunyadi, University of Debrecen (Hungary) · Jan Rybicki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraków (Poland) · Corinne Welger-Barboza, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) For all relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. Elisabeth Burr Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/quebec/ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gal2010 http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr/JISU/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 25 20:47:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B047128210F; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:47:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23BAA282095; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:47:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120525204715.23BAA282095@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 20:47:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.43 the taxonomy 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. 26, No. 43. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 12:30:46 +0200 From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.41 disciplinary paranoia; the taxonomy In-Reply-To: <20120524203856.5823A282421@woodward.joyent.us> > Am 24/05/2012 22:38, schrieb Wendell Piez > : "By "computing", do we mean only what happens in and by the computer as such? [...] Organization, specification, automation, system: this is only industrial civilization, which we thought was going to be our servant -- back when the industrialist's fondest hope was that his child should become a Professor of Literature, and not the other way around -- but which becomes, increasingly, our governor as well as our dependent." Master and slave, Herr und Knecht -- thinking in models is only the first, the heuristic stage within any science. Expanding that stage into a full blown "metaphorical science", that has become so fashionable again within recent decades, is just a fall back into "romantic science", when, to quote an example, a soon to become famous German philosopher cured his sister to death by treating her dysentery with an excess of a purgative because the "appearance" seemed to correlate. Romantic science has always been good for dinner talks and Sunday speeches: Man bites dog, not the other way round. We should know that blinding effect by now. Our astonishment is only a reflection of our ignorance, artificially induced or not. Is that what we need in a time of globalization (Leslie White's "sphericity") that might become a period of humanization instead of quantification? What is the use of a "media" archaeology of card record systems that ignores the Egyptian and Babylonian list-sciences, the Linnean taxonomy, Lavoisier's nomenclature, Mendeleev's and Meyer's periodic table or the quippu strings and wampum belts, to name just a few, as if they did not exist, while not even discussing the meaning of "media" in that respect? Why "Anerkennung" (Axel Honneth), when we admit having left out too many things from our discourse? And yes, "a German shepherd dog is the only secure door lock there is," if only necessary in a certain "community" of scholars distributing "Anerkennung" according to rules of power. Paranoia or experience of life in a certain society with a certain tradition at a certain point of time? I wish to quote your final remarks, as I fully agree with your view: "But I don't have to worry about this either, or the similar resources (aimed at all levels) for the learning of Sanskrit or Classical Chinese poetry or musical composition, which we will be seeing in all kinds of media, electronic and otherwise. It is all inevitable." Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 25 20:48:48 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D642821A7; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:48:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4BF16282135; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:48:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120525204846.4BF16282135@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 20:48:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.44 author: "humanism is..."? 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. 26, No. 44. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 12:39:21 +0200 From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Humanism as the community of humanists In-Reply-To: <20120523214914.0EE29282173@woodward.joyent.us> I have read somewhere and try to remember a statement sounding like "Humanism (or the humanities) is (only) the community of humanists." I understand what is meant, but could anybody please give a name and place to quote? Thank you. Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 25 20:53:28 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D10282589; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:53:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30FF028239A; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:53:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120525205326.30FF028239A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 20:53:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.45 events: Wikipedia; visual culture; complex networks; high-performance computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 45. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Horrocks, Sally M. (Dr.)" (20) Subject: Symposia at University of Leicester, 15th and 16th June 2012: 'Visual Culture Research: Access All Areas?' & 'British Society on the Small Screen? The Historian, Television, and History' [2] From: Franz Fischer (46) Subject: Call for participation: Wikipedia Academy 2012 [3] From: Maximilian Schich (42) Subject: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks @ NetSci2012 [4] From: I-CHASS (50) Subject: Extending High-Performance Computing Beyond its Traditional UserCommunities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:25:40 +0100 From: "Horrocks, Sally M. (Dr.)" Subject: Symposia at University of Leicester, 15th and 16th June 2012: 'Visual Culture Research: Access All Areas?' & 'British Society on the Small Screen? The Historian, Television, and History' Two upcoming events at Leicester that might interest some list members ________________________________ The Salon and IDeoGRAMS in association with the School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester present a symposium on: Visual Culture Research: Access All Areas? 10am-5pm, Friday 15th June 2012 Attenborough Building, Basement Seminar Block, Lecture Theatre LT1 & Seminar Room LG03, University of Leicester Confirmed Speakers: * Tim Padfield, Copyright Officer for The National Archives * Garry Campbell, Head of Archive Services at the BBC With the advent and proliferation of digital culture, humanities research has changed forever. In an age when the internet allows access to more and more visual material, much of which has been previously unavailable, academics have an increasingly rich seam of sources to tap into but, inevitably, questions must be asked about the ethics of using sources and research which fall outside the bounds of archives and institutions. At a time when such archives and institutions are also at risk of marginalisation and cuts in funding, should academics use material accessed outside these repositories without questioning its provenance? How may academics and curators negotiate this tension between utopian academic and cultural impulses and the ethical, financial and political constraints around visual culture research, copyright and access? This one-day symposium will explore the use of visual material in academic research and some of the ethical issues that this raises in the digital age. To open up the dialogue beyond academia, speakers from a number of national repositories and archives have been invited to contribute their thoughts on how to improve shared knowledge and enable wider access to visual media through a variety of channels. This event is free to attend, but requires registration (now open) with Dr Anna Claydon at eac14@le.ac.uk. University of Leicester's School of Historical Studies will also be running a twinned event the following day: British Society on the Small Screen? The Historian, Television and History 10am-5pm, Saturday 16th June 2012 1 Salisbury Road, University of Leicester An innovative one-day workshop exploring the value of television material as a social and cultural record for historical research. Further information is available at http://britishsocietyonthesmallscreen.blogspot.co.uk or by email from Gillian Murray: gem10@le.ac.uk This workshop is funded by the Economic History Society and is free to attend, however places are limited. Please email Gillian Murray, gem10@le.ac.uk, for more information and to reserve a place. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 08:22:25 +0200 From: Franz Fischer Subject: Call for participation: Wikipedia Academy 2012 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge. June 29 - July 1, 2012 | Berlin, Germany The free online Encyclopedia Wikipedia answers questions of millions of users every day. The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in particular and on free knowledge in general. More information on: http://wikipedia-academy.de == Topics and programme == A preliminary programme schedule can be found on the WPAC2012 website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Schedule A programme preview was published here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/05/23/wikipedia-academy-2012-registration-open-schedule-online/ == Registration == The online registration is open now. The participation fee is 60 Euro (reduced price: 30 Euro): http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Registration We are looking forward to your participation! In case of further questions, contact us at academy-oc@wikimedia.de Best regards, The WPAC2012 Organising Committee -- Angelika Adam Projektmanagerin Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://www.wikimedia.de/ Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Dr. des. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 6883/1750 Email: franz.fischer@uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/ http://www.i-d-e.de/ http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de/ http://ti-intern.uni-koeln.de/sdoe/ http://confessio.ie/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:37:17 +0200 From: Maximilian Schich Subject: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks @ NetSci2012 Dear friends, We have a number of exciting news, regarding the registration and program for our satellite at NetSci2012, our dedicated Special Section in Leonardo Journal, and our brand new eBook from MIT-Press. PLEASE REGISTER NOW at http://ahcn2012.eventbrite.com/ for *Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks -- 3rd Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2012* on *Tuesday, June 19, 2012* at *Kellogg School of Management* on *Northwestern University* campus in Evanston/IL, near Chicago/IL on the shores of Lake Michigan. featuring keynotes Burak Arikan (NYC/Istanbul), Pedro Cano (bmat.com), and Miriah Meyer (Utah); contributors Marco Büchler (Leipzig), Nan Cao (Hong Kong), Greg Crane (Tufts), James G. Ennis (Tufts), Gerhard Heyer (Leipzig), Yu-Ru Lin (Northeastern/Harvard), Hoyt Long (Chicago), Eliah Meeks (Stanford), Richard Jean So (Chicago), and Katharina Anna Zweig (Heidelberg). In addition Maximilian Schich (ETH Zurich) will moderate a panel discussion featuring Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern), Petter Holme (Umeå), Cristián Huepe (Northwestern), Isabel Meirelles (Northeastern), as well as Dean Julio M. Ottino (Northwestern). Attending the symposium is free of charge, but requires registration. Tickets are given out in a first come, first serve basis, to both NetSci2012 and WebSci2012 main conference attendees as well as external guests. Please be aware that registration MAY FILL UP FAST. FOR THE FULL PROGRAMM and more information please go to http://artshumanities.netsci2012.net PLEASE ALSO CHECK OUT OUR LATEST SPECIAL SECTION IN LEONARDO JOURNAL at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/45/3 ... AND TAKE A LOOK AT OUR BRAND NEW KINDLE EBOOK at http://ahcncompanion.info/ or http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S0UA9Q We are enthusiastically looking forward to meet you at Lake Michigan, The Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks organizers, Maximilian Schich, Roger Malina, Isabel Meirelles, and Cristián Huepe artshumanities.netsci@gmail.com Please forward this information to your respective audiences via email, or by ... retweeting the latest two posts from https://twitter.com/#!/schichmax ... sharing https://plus.google.com/u/0/103399765838700954517/posts/TWvcvdK7jSv ... Facebook-liking http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2527939134 or ... linking on LinkedIn via http://linkd.in/Jyemyd --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 20:15:24 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Extending High-Performance Computing Beyond its Traditional UserCommunities Extending High-Performance Computing Beyond its Traditional User Communities Co-located with the 8th IEEE International Conference on eScience, Chicago, USA October 8, 2012 Call for Papers: Historically, high-performance computing (HPC) has enabled computationally intensive simulations performed in batch mode on a small number of standalone supercomputers, shared among users selected for their computing skills as much as for expertise in their own disciplines. There has been a sustained effort over the past decade to broaden this model by deploying a wider variety of HPC systems tied into emerging national and global cyber-infrastructure (CI), yet only a small fraction of the resources fielded by HPC-based CI programs such as the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is currently used by people who are not members of communities that have used supercomputing centers since the 1980’s. Given the digital instruments and methods that are revolutionizing biological, environmental, and physical sciences, as well as the promise of important benefits to social sciences and the arts and humanities, XSEDE is undertaking a proactive effort to work with members of these communities to identify barriers and to develop projects that show how to effectively overcome them. In this context, the goal of the proposed workshop is to discuss examples of successful projects as well as barriers and practical approaches to overcoming them. After the presentation of selected papers, there will be a discussion among all the participants. The desired outcome is an improved understanding of actions that should be taken by the various stakeholders in order to enable a wide spectrum of practitioners to use HPC resources as part of their work and data flows, and to establish an informal network of people and communities interested in this outcome. We invite papers that describe projects that have already used HPC systems, or whose requirements analysis indicates a need for HPC systems as part of the infrastructure for their implementation – if specific topics of concern are satisfactorily addressed. Disciplines of study include, but are not limited to: * Genomics and bioinformatics * Social, behavioral and economic sciences * Digital humanities * Public Health * Citizen science * Computational linguistics * Machine learning * Digital arts Topics of concern include, but are not limited to: * Campus, Cloud and HPC resources: tradeoffs and interoperation * Security and privacy of HPC environments * Data management, integration and visualization from Lab to HPC and back * Parallelization of compute- or data-intensive tasks * Programming paradigms, tools and programming environments * Access to and scheduling of HPC environments * Community portals and gateways * Workflow management and remote collaboration * System level support for workflows that include HPC * Fault-tolerance of distributed applications * Scalability of infrastructures and applications * Training and education of current and future practitioners Organizers Ralph Roskies, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Sergiu Sanielevici, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA Philip Blood, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA Program Committee Kevin Franklin, University of Illinois, USA Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia James Taylor, Emory University, USA Kenneth Judd, Stanford University, USA John Grefenstette, University of Pittsburgh, USA Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois, USA Robert Sinkovits, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Jeffrey Gardner, University of Washington, USA Thomas Uram,Argonne National Laboratory, USA * * * ABOUT I-CHASS Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 26 20:58:43 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8404228248D; Sat, 26 May 2012 20:58:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9334728247D; Sat, 26 May 2012 20:58:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120526205842.9334728247D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 20:58:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.46 Connected Past 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. 26, No. 46. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 08:35:43 +0100 From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Connected Past videos online now Dear all, Two months ago we organised 'The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history' in Southampton. We are delighted to let you know that the recorded presentations are now available on The Connected Past website: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/recorded-presentations/ The talks are illustrative of the wide range of topics by scholars from an equally diverse range of disciplines. There are videos with a methodological focus, some with a theoretical focus and a number of applied case studies. If these talks taught us anything it would be that ‘Thinking through networks’ might provide innovative and useful approaches to understanding the past, but some methods are more promising than others and the theoretical implications deserve our attention. Networks are not everything but they might be useful and we hope that The Connected Past allowed for this idea to emerge and will continue to provide a multi-disciplinary discussion platform. We hope you enjoy these recordings and we will be in touch about the future of The Connected Past soon. Best wishes, Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar and Fiona Coward http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon May 28 20:12:05 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D41282155; Mon, 28 May 2012 20:12:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 03D29282146; Mon, 28 May 2012 20:12:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120528201203.03D29282146@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 20:12:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.47 events: cultural attitudes; accessibility; information X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 47. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (86) Subject: Call For Participation: iConference 2013 [2] From: Berris Charnley (64) Subject: Call for registrations: Making Data Accessible o All, Exeter 12-13 July [3] From: Charles Ess (28) Subject: Program, travel information for CATaC'12 - June 18-20, Aarhus, Denmark --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 10:48:39 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Call For Participation: iConference 2013 Call For Participation: iConference 2013 Fort Worth, Texas February 12-15, 2013 http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ The iConference is an annual gathering of scholars and researchers concerned with critical information issues in contemporary society. iConference participants advance the boundaries of information studies, explore core concepts and ideas, and create new technological and conceptual configurations—all situated in interdisciplinary discourses. These issues will be addressed during our four-day event in Fort Worth, Texas, February 12-15, 2013. The conference theme is Data, Innovation, Wisdom: Scholarship in Action. Please join us for a multitude of high-quality papers, posters, and workshops, along with interactive alternative events that will frame the conversation. In addition, the will host a Doctoral Colloquium and an Early Career Workshop, lots of social events, and many networking opportunities. iConference 2013 is hosted by the College of Information at the University of North Texas. The presenting sponsor is Microsoft Research, which is also providing support for the conference’s inaugural Social Media Expo. The iConference series is presented by the iSchools (www.ischools.org), a growing association of Schools, Faculties and Colleges in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Affiliation with the iSchools is not a prerequisite of participation; we encourage all information scholars and practitioners to take part in the conference. * Conference: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ * iCaucus: http://www.ischools.org/site/ * Past Proceedings: http://www.ischools.org/site/conference/ SUBMISSION INFORMATION In response to requests for more varied opportunities to participate, we are offering several new submission formats this year. * Papers: Results of completed original research, 8-10 pages in length in publication format; papers will be refereed in a double-blind process. Submissions will be in PDF format. Submission deadline: September 3, 2012. Notification: Early November. Final version due: December 3, 2012. * Notes: Reports of early and partial results, 4 pages or less in length in publication format; Notes will be refereed in a double-blind process. Submissions will be in PDF format. Submission deadline: September 10, 2012. Notification: Early November. Final version due: December 3, 2012. * Posters: We welcome submission of Posters presenting new work, preliminary results and designs, or educational projects. Applicants will submit an abstract describing the proposed Poster, and these abstracts will undergo a single-blind blind review process (i.e., reviewers will know the identity of authors, but not vice versa). Poster abstracts are not to exceed two pages in length. Abstract submissions will be in PDF format. Completed Posters will be presented at the iConference. Abstract submission deadline: September 24, 2012. Notification: Mid-November. Final abstract due: December 7, 2012. Completed poster due: February 12, 2013 * Workshops: Workshops can be half- or full-day and can focus on any area related the conference theme (Scholarship in Action) or more broadly to the purview of the iSchools, namely, the relationships among information, people and technology. A proposal template is provided on the website; submissions should be in PDF format. Submission deadline: September 24, 2012. Notification: Early October. Final version due: Early November. * Alternative Events: These can include panels, fishbowls, performances, storytelling, roundtable discussions, wildcard sessions, demos/exhibitions, and more. All should be highly participatory, informal, engaging, and pluralistic. A proposal template is provided on the website; submissions should be in PDF format. Submission deadline: September 24, 2012. Notification: Mid-November. Final version due: December 7, 2012. * Research Paper Development Roundtable: This new iConference submission track is for researchers developing manuscripts for submission as journal articles. The goals of this track are to provide a forum for interactive development of research papers, enable a discussion of current research ideas, provide a clear path to journal publication, and increase collaboration opportunities for junior faculty. Papers reporting work in progress and late breaking research are welcome. See website for additional details. Submission deadline: Extended abstracts due August 1, 2012. Notification: Early October. Full draft due: January 7, 2013. OTHER EVENTS SCHEDULED * Doctoral Colloquium: The doctoral student colloquium will provide doctoral students the opportunity to present their work to senior faculty and one another in a setting that is relatively informal but that allows for the fullest of intellectual exchanges. Students will receive feedback on their dissertation and/or current research from participating faculty and student peers. Participation in the doctoral colloquium is restricted to students who have applied for and been accepted into the colloquium. The colloquium will not be open to observers. Visit the doctoral colloquium webpage for more information:http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/doctoral/ Application deadline: September 24, 2012. Notification: Mid-November. * Early Career Colloquium: This half-day event is intended for assistant professors, post-docs, or others in pre-tenure positions and builds on the tradition of highly successful events at past iConferences. The program will include an introductory presentation on the tenure process, panels by recently tenured faculty and experienced former deans, and small group discussions to provide informal dialogue, guidance, and insights. Visit the early career colloquium webpage for more information: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/jr_faculty/ * FUSE Labs iConference Social Media Expo: The iConference, in collaboration with FUSE Labs of Microsoft Research, is pleased to announce the first iConference Social Media Expo. The exposition is designed to showcase exceptional interdisciplinary research and development work from information school programs specializing in social media. Students are asked to form interdisciplinary teams of 3-5 students to perform research, design, development or community engagement exploring technological solutions to people’s real needs around the theme of leveraging social media to foster lifelong learning in everyday life. A representative team from each participating school will be selected to attend and featured in a presentation at a special session of the iConference in February of 2013. Visit the Social Media Expo webpage for more information: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/expo/ Initial notification: Letters of Interest due September 14, 2012 * New this year, the leadership of the iCaucus and the iConference 2013 organizers have arranged for a special full-day workshop on Information Privacy. The workshop is being co-organized by the following iCaucus members: University of California, Berkeley School of Information; Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College; Indiana University, School of Informatics and Computing; University of Michigan, School of Information; and Singapore Management University, School of Information Systems. The deans from each of these five iSchools have committed to send top faculty researchers in information privacy (spanning technology, management, law and policy) to participate. Details on how to take part will be publicized in the future. ORGANIZERS Honorary Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University; Herman Totten, University of North Texas Conference Chair: William Moen, University of North Texas Program Co-Chairs: Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University; Martin Halbert, University of North Texas Program Committee: Randolph Bias, University of Texas Wade Bishop, University of Kentucky Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh Joy Davidson, Glasgow University Robert Deng, Singapore Management University Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon Andrew Flinn, University College London Fred Fonseca, Pennsylvania State University Maria Gade, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin Steve Howard, University of Melbourne Heikki Keskustalo, University of Tampere Anita Komlodi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Cory Knobel, University of California, Irvine Eden Medina, Indiana University Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia Karine Nahon, University of Washington Arcot Rajasekar (Raja), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University Mega Subramanian, University of Maryland Elaine Toms, University of Sheffield Judith Wusteman, University College Dublin Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Learn more at: http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ -- Dr Judith Wusteman UCD School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland Tel: +353 1 716 7612 Fax: +353 1 716 1161 URL: http://www.ucd.ie/wusteman --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 12:12:34 +0100 From: Berris Charnley Subject: Call for registrations: Making Data Accessible o All, Exeter 12-13 July GARNet/Egenis workshop ‘Making Data Accessible to All’ Dates: 12-13 July 2012 Deadline for registration: 15 June and places are limited (register now to avoid disappointment) Location: Innovation Centre, University of Exeter Organisers: Sabina Leonelli (Egenis), Ruth Bastow (GARNet), Berris Charnley (Egenis) Plant scientists are often required to donate data to open access databases (for instance, by the BBSRC data management policy). They are also encouraged to make use of these databases in order to boost their research and speed up discovery. It is not yet clear, however, whether and how these practices are affecting experimentation within the plant sciences, and whether data donation and use on a large scale has been effective in fostering innovative research. The focus of this workshop is to discuss issues surrounding data donation, data use and publication from the viewpoint of plant biologists; and it offers a unique opportunity to engage with key publishers and funders around this issues. The registration form can be found at the workshop webpage: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/news/geworkshop PROGRAMME Thursday 12th July 2012 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and registration 13:00 – 13:30 Introduction (Sabina Leonelli and Ruth Bastow) Session 1: Data donation, analysis and use (Chair: Ruth Bastow) 13:30-14:00 Andrew Millar (Edinburgh) “Creating, leveraging and sustaining public data (and more) with uncertain funding” 14:00-14:30 Nick Smirnoff (Exeter) “Accessing and using metabolomics data” 14:30-15:00 Jay Moore (Warwick) “From bench to web, via spreadsheets: practical data sharing in research groups” 15:00-15:30 Jacob Newman (UEA) “Sharing Data with Omero” 15:30 – 16:00 Tea/coffee 16:00 – 17:30 Discussion session: how are publicly accessible data being used? (Chair: Cathie Martin - editor of Plant Cell) Friday 13th July 2012 Session 2: Curating and publishing data (Chair: Steve Hughes) 9:00-9:20 Mary Traynor (editor of Journal of Experimental Botany) “Providing more actionable data associated with articles” 9:20-9:40 Gilles Jonker (Executive Publisher for Agronomy at Elsevier) “Connecting Scientific Articles with Research Data” 9:40-10:00 Ruth Wilson (publisher at Nature Publishing Group) “Integrating Research Data and Publications” 10:00-10:20 Mark Hahnel (founder of Figshare) "Getting credit for all of your research" 10:20-10:40 Claire Bird (Senior Publisher, Life Sciences, Oxford Journals) “What role can publishers play in managing data?” 10:40 – 11:00 Tea/coffee Session 3: Data curation and management (Chair: Sabina Leonelli) 11:00-11:20 Sean May (NASC) “NASC: Reciprocal CTRL-ALTruism” 11:20-11:40 David Swarbreck (TGAC) "Data Deluge - A bioinformatics centre's perspective" 11:40-12:00 Alain Pottage (London School of Economics) “Traces of a botanical economy; on the regulation of collecting” 12:00-12:20 Peter Burlinson (BBSRC) “Data sharing: a perspective from the BBSRC” 12:20-12:40 General Discussion 12:40 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – 15:00 Final discussion: the impact of data dissemination on plant science research Berris Charnley, Research Fellow, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (EGENIS), Byrne House, University of Exeter, EX4 4PJ. t: +44 1392 725125 e: B.Charnley@exeter.ac.uk / Berris.Charnley@gmail.com w: www.ipbio.org/berris-charnley.htm --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 16:23:22 +0200 From: Charles Ess Subject: Program, travel information for CATaC'12 - June 18-20, Aarhus, Denmark Dear Humanists, On behalf of the Organizing Committee - we are very pleased to announce that the detailed program for CATaC'12 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) is now available on the conference website: http://www.catacconference.org/ The program is made up of presentations from colleagues from over 20 countries, and is accompanied by a great deal of detailed information regarding travel to and from Aarhus, Denmark; excursion possibilities, restaurant recommendations, etc. Registration for CATaC'12 is still open - but please note that accommodations will be extremely tight during this period in Aarhus. If you are considering attending, we strongly suggest that you ensure you have reserved accommodations before registering for the conference. Our congratulations to the authors whose papers and panels were accepted and thereby constitute a very strong conference program indeed. We very much look forward to welcoming presenters and participants to Aarhus in June. All the best from "the city of smiles" - charles ess (Media Studies, Aarhus University) Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 29 20:40:30 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D1CE2827C7; Tue, 29 May 2012 20:40:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1463C2827B7; Tue, 29 May 2012 20:40:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120529204028.1463C2827B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 20:40:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.48 immersive technologies in the humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 48. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 06:38:42 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: immersive technologies in humanities research? Does anyone here know of research into the use of immersive technologies in the construction of research environments for the humanities or social sciences? I am particularly interested in demands that specific humanities research would have, or has had, on the technologies involved. For the sense of "immersive" that I am using here, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality). This article states that immersive VR is "a hypothetical future technology", but at least one research project at the University of Western Sydney, the Uruk Project, http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~anton/Research/Uruk_Project/, would appear to qualify as being in the here-and-now. I'd also be very interested in assessments of the potential for the humanities and social sciences. Note that I am *not* asking about non-immersive VR, which would seem to me on the wrong side of a crucial threshold. How could VR live up to the name if the technology isn't sufficient to push you over that threshold? But others here will know far more about these matters than I do, so please comment. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 29 20:41:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A30928285E; Tue, 29 May 2012 20:41:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 68D9A28284C; Tue, 29 May 2012 20:41:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120529204114.68D9A28284C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 20:41:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.49 #Altac reflections X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 49. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 06:13:24 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: #Altac reflections Many here will, I expect, take an interest in Roger T. Whitson's article in The Chronicle of Higher Education for 29 May, "#Altac and the Tenure Track", in which among other things he recounts his experiences in the Digital Scholarship Commons at Emory University. See http://chronicle.com/article/Altacthe-Tenure-Track/131935/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 29 20:43:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFABC2828F5; Tue, 29 May 2012 20:43:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 77A292828DA; Tue, 29 May 2012 20:43:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120529204327.77A292828DA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 20:43:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.50 events: cultural attitudes; the Archimedes palimpsest X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 50. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "catac@it.murdoch.edu.au" (15) Subject: Program and travel information - CATaC12, 18-20 June, Aarhus,Denmark [2] From: Dot Porter (18) Subject: TED Talk: William Noel on "Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 05:51:13 +0100 From: "catac@it.murdoch.edu.au" Subject: Program and travel information - CATaC12, 18-20 June, Aarhus,Denmark On behalf of the Organizing Committee - we are very pleased to announce that the detailed program for CATaC'12 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) is now available on the conference website: www.catacconference.org. The program is made up of presentations from colleagues from over 20 countries, and is accompanied by a great deal of detailed information regarding travel to and from Aarhus, Denmark, excursion possibilities, restaurant recommendations, etc. Registration for CATaC'12 is still open - but please note that accommodation will be extremely tight during this period in Aarhus. If you are considering attending, we strongly suggest that you ensure you have reserved accommodations before registering for the conference. Our congratulations to the authors whose papers and panels were accepted and thereby constitute a very strong conference program indeed. We very much look forward to welcoming presenters and participants to Aarhus in June. All the best from "the city of smiles" Charles Ess (Media Studies, Aarhus University) Fay Sudweeks (Murdoch University, Australia) Michele Strano (Bridgewater College, USA) Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo, Norway) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 16:25:50 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: TED Talk: William Noel on "Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes" In-Reply-To: Will Noel is the curator of manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. He's a strong proponent of open access policies for digital library content, and he led the team that uncovered lost texts of Archimedes through the Archimedes Palimpsest Project (http://archimedespalimpsest.org/digital/) "How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously-unknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes and others." http://www.ted.com/talks/william_noel_revealing_the_lost_codex_of_archimedes.html -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 30 20:11:18 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971C52821CE; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:11:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D4E82821BC; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:11:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120530201116.2D4E82821BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:11:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.51 immersive technologies; #Altac reflections X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 51. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peterjenkins (56) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.48 immersive technologies in the humanities? [2] From: Jennifer Edmond (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.49 #Altac reflections --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 16:55:28 -0400 From: Peterjenkins Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.48 immersive technologies in the humanities? In-Reply-To: <20120529204028.1463C2827B7@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard: You should probably check out the work of Ted Castronova at Indiana U. Here is a link to an article about his efforts to design an immersive virtual world to test out various economic theories. http://www.technologyreview.com/web/19817/ Best regards, Peter Jenkins, PhD Sent from my iPhone On 2012-05-29, at 16:40, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 48. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 06:38:42 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: immersive technologies in humanities research? > > Does anyone here know of research into the use of immersive technologies > in the construction of research environments for the humanities or > social sciences? I am particularly interested in demands that specific > humanities research would have, or has had, on the technologies involved. > > For the sense of "immersive" that I am using here, see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality). This article > states that immersive VR is "a hypothetical future technology", but at > least one research project at the University of Western Sydney, the Uruk > Project, http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~anton/Research/Uruk_Project/, > would appear to qualify as being in the here-and-now. > > I'd also be very interested in assessments of the potential for the > humanities and social sciences. Note that I am *not* asking about > non-immersive VR, which would seem to me on the wrong side of a crucial > threshold. How could VR live up to the name if the technology isn't > sufficient to push you over that threshold? But others here will know > far more about these matters than I do, so please comment. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, > 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, 30 May 2012 10:54:27 +0100 From: Jennifer Edmond Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.49 #Altac reflections In-Reply-To: <20120529204114.68D9A28284C@woodward.joyent.us> As someone who has been alt-ac for most of her career (having left a tenure track academic job), I find Dr Whitson's attitude of having 'betrayed' the alt-ac 'movement' the worst part of his reflections. I have no problems with the idea of mobility between academic and alt tracks. Indeed, of the 3 assistants I have mentored over the past 6 years, one has gone into public service, one into an academic role and one into a senior library position. These are all great outcomes, as in each case the alt-ac experience allowed the people in question to reflect on what they wanted from a career and gain a bit of context for their work. What we do need, however, is to weaken the divide between the 'alt' and the 'non-alt' within the university crucibles for all of these careers. Until institutions stop managing people either as serfs or as celestial beings on a cloud of 'academic freedom', and nothing in between, alt-ac will remain precarious, at times demeaning, and only for the brave/foolhardy or unlucky. Academic staff who can see administrators as their equal, and in some productive ways their betters, are what we all need most - may Dr Whitson stay true to his commitment to become one. Dr Jennifer Edmond Trinity College, Dublin (former Executive Director, Trinity Long Room Hub former Research Strategy Officer, Trinity College Dublin former Humanities Technology Officer, University of Nottingham former Assistant Professor of German, Centre College) On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 49. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 06:13:24 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: #Altac reflections > > Many here will, I expect, take an interest in Roger T. Whitson's article > in The Chronicle of Higher Education for 29 May, "#Altac and the Tenure > Track", in which among other things he recounts his experiences in the > Digital Scholarship Commons at Emory University. See > > http://chronicle.com/article/Altacthe-Tenure-Track/131935/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en > . > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist > (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- Dr Jennifer Edmond Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland Phone: +353 1 896 4224 *http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub * Trinity Long Room Hub is the Trinity College Dublin Arts and Humanities Research Institute. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 30 20:12:26 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AE3282264; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:12:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E7B228224F; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:12:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120530201225.1E7B228224F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:12:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.52 jobs at Cambridge in reproduction history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 52. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:22:28 +0100 From: Nick Hopwood Subject: Research associateships at Cambridge in the social study (including history) of reproduction In-Reply-To: Research associate positions in the social study of reproduction in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. NOTE History of reproduction is among the possible fields of expertise and, as Sarah Franklin writes, "The work will be linked to the work of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproductive Forum (CIRF) and the Wellcome Trust funded 'Generation to Reproduction' initiative based in HPS. The new reproductive studies programme is also linked to the work I have been doing on the history of mammalian developmental biology in the UK with Martin Johnson (who is in the biological sciences) and Nick Hopwood (in HPS). We have a new British Academy funded project on the history of IVF that is part of this initiative, as well as other applications in progress." ADVERT The Department of Sociology is seeking to appoint two suitably qualified individuals as Research Associates in the area of the social study of reproduction. The posts are for two years in the first instance with the possibility of extension. Applications are invited from individuals who have expertise in the social study of reproduction, reproductive technologies, the history of reproduction, reproductive health, or reproductive biomedicine. Applicants must have received a PhD in Sociology, Social Anthropology or a related discipline by 1 October 2012. We are seeking to appoint individuals who can contribute to a new research concentration in reproductive studies. Potential applicants are invited who have expertise in the social study of reproduction, reproductive technologies, the history of reproduction, reproductive health, or reproduction or reproduction in social theory. In addition to pursuing their own research, the persons appointed will be expected to work closely with Professor Sarah Franklin in the development of a reproductive studies programme in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge. This will require a percentage of time (approx 30%) to be devoted to teaching and research administration as well as the effort to secure additional external funds. Applications should be sent to Dr Gerald McLaren (applications@sociology.cam.ac.uk), Faculty of Human, Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RQ to reach him by Tuesday 3 July 2012. Applications should include a personal statement, a curriculum vitae and a signed and completed copy of Parts 1 and 3 of the CHRIS/6 form which may be downloaded from http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/chris6/chris6.doc. Applicants should also arrange for two referees to send references directly to Dr McLaren on their behalf by the same date, enclosing a completed data protection form http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/dept/data_protection_act_form.pdf The University is committed to equality of opportunity. Further information about the Department and the Faculty can be found at www.sociology.cam.ac.uk and www.hsps.cam.ac.uk. For further information about the job please go to the job opportunities link at www.sociology.cam.ac.uk. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Sarah Franklin at sbf25@cam.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1223 334520 . Please follow the link for more information: http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/dept/jobs.html * Limit of tenure: 24 months. Quote Reference: ZZ17281,Closing Date: 3 July 2012 -- Sarah Franklin Sociology Professor University of Cambridge Dept. Sociology, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/contacts/staff/profiles/sfranklin.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 May 30 20:14:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACBEB2823AA; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:14:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 67B3E282392; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:14:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120530201433.67B3E282392@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:14:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.53 events: Turing; classical studies; archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 53. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Toby Burrows (65) Subject: CAA2013 - Call for sessions, roundtables and workshops [2] From: S B Cooper (101) Subject: CiE 2012 Turing Centenary Conference, Cambridge - Final Call forParticipation [3] From: Gabriel BODARD (64) Subject: Seminar: Digital Critical Editions of Homer --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 12:46:43 +0800 From: Toby Burrows Subject: CAA2013 - Call for sessions, roundtables and workshops Call for Sessions, Roundtables and Workshops Proposals CAA2013 PERTH Across Space and Time http://caa2013.org http://caa2013.org/ Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Perth, Western Australia 25-28th March 2013 The CAA2013 PERTH conference 'Across Space and Time' will be held at the University of Western Australia Club from Monday 25 - Thursday 28 March 2013. Workshops will be held on Monday 25 March on campus. CAA (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) is the premier international conference for all aspects of computing, quantitative methods and digital applications in Archaeology. With a history going back to 1972, CAA encourages participation from scholars, specialists and experts in the fields of archaeology, history, cultural heritage, digital scholarship, GIS, mathematics, semantic web, informatics and members of other disciplines that complement and extend the interests of CAA. For further information about this exciting interdisciplinary conference see the website http://caa2013.org http://caa2013.org/ Call for sessions The CAA 2013 Conference Chairs invite proposals for sessions relating to all aspects of computer applications to stimulate discussion and future progress in the application of digital technologies to archaeology and various aspects of cultural heritage. Sessions, Roundtables and Workshops proposals are now being invited and are due 20 June 2012. Themes The main themes of the conference are likely to include the following, but may be modified or extended according to the session proposals we receive: 1. Field and laboratory data recording 2. Data modelling, management and integration 3. Linked data and the semantic web 4. Data analysis and visualisation 5. 3D modelling, visualisation and simulations 6. Spatio-temporal modelling, GIS and remote sensing 7. Users and interfaces: education, museums and multimedia 8. Theoretical issues, and the relation of CAA with the Digital Humanities 9. Digital Cities, cultural heritage interpretation and modelling the past. Formats The CAA 2013 Conference organisers invite proposers to read the session guidelines and make their submission accordingly. Paper sessions: An explicit aim of the CAA2013 program is to promote networking, knowledge sharing and discussion. In order to do so, there will be a new type of session, called Focus Sessions (see below), which session organisers and presenters are encouraged to consider. Sessions chairs can indicate at this stage if they would like to adopt the Long paper session format, the Focus session format, or a combination of the two. They may wish to approach potentially interested participants as to whether they want to contribute to the developing a proposal. * Long paper sessions: A session of related 20 minute papers. This is an opportunity to present new and ground-breaking research in a conventional presentation and power point format. There will be questions after each session; however, the time limit for the paper need to be strictly adhered to. * Focus sessions: A session consisting of approximately ten thematically related 5 minute key-point presentations, an optional discussion to pull the theme together, followed by a room-based break organised around posters or demonstrations presenting additional information. We encourage session organisers to think outside the box and consider whether the Focus Sessions would present better networking and learning opportunities rather than traditional Long Paper Sessions. Roundtables: Roundtables to address a specific topic or issue comprising of up to 10 speakers coordinated by one or more individuals. Papers may be short or long presentations at the discretion of the coordinator(s) but would normally include at least 30 minutes for general discussion from the floor. Workshops: We are also inviting submissions for pre-conference workshops to be held on Monday 25 March. Workshops on applied research are welcome. Workshops will normally last 2 - 3 hours and should be scheduled to finish by mid-afternoon in time for the first plenary session of the Conference. Please include some practical work or other active participation of attendees, rather than an extended lecture. In proposing workshops, please indicate any technical facilities required for example, a computer lab or wireless network and whether participants should bring own laptops. Also please indicate the maximum number of participants and any prior knowledge or skills required. Key Dates 20 June 2012 Sessions, Roundtables and Workshops deadline 09 July 2012 Proposers informed about the status of their proposal 13 July 2012 Accepted proposals will be posted on the CAA2013 Conference webpage How to Submit We look forward to receiving your Proposal. Please submit your proposal via the CAA Open Conference System at: https://caaconference.org/ocs If you do not have a login, please create one at the ACCOUNT tab and select CAA2013. Make sure you check AUTHOR at the bottom of the registration form (if you do not select AUTHOR you will not be able to submit your proposal). If you had previously logged in the CAA Open Conference System (OCS) for the CAA 2012 Southampton conference, you can log with the same user name and password. Should you have log in problems, use the 'Forgot your password?' link on the LOG IN tab to recover your user name and a new password. If you have any technical problems in uploading your submission please send an email to submissions@caa2013.org . We look forward to seeing your Proposal and seeing you in Perth in 2013. The Co-Chairs CAA2013 Perth Across Space and Time Contact email: info@caa2013.org Dr Arianna Traviglia Macquarie University T +61 (0) 2 9850 8889 E arianna.traviglia@mq.edu.au Dr Felicity Morel-EdnieBrown The University of Western Australia Department of the Premier and Cabinet Western Australia M +61 (0) 423 843 639 E felicity.morel@planning.wa.gov.au E felicity.morel-eb@iinet.net.au --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:11:06 +0100 From: S B Cooper Subject: CiE 2012 Turing Centenary Conference, Cambridge - Final Call forParticipation This message was originally submitted by pmt6sbc@MATHS.LEEDS.AC.UK to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. 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Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ---------------- Message requiring your approval (115 lines) ------------------ ********************************************************************** CiE 2012 FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE http://www.cie2012.eu Computability in Europe 2012: How the World Computes University of Cambridge Cambridge, 18-23 June 2012 CiE 2012 is one of a series of special events, running throughout the Alan Turing Year, celebrating Turing's unique impact on mathematics, computing, computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, artificial intelligence, philosophy and computational aspects of physics, biology, linguistics, economics and the wider scientific world. CiE 2012 is planned to be an event worthy of the remarkable scientific career it commemorates, and will be the largest ever conference centred on the Computability Theoretic legacy of Turing and his contemporaries. Current registrations indicate a final participation approaching 400, with over 240 speakers. ONLINE REGISTRATION is invited for this historic event. For registration details, see: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~amp66/CiE%20Homepage/ ONLINE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JUNE 8th, 2012 PLENARY SPEAKERS include: Andrew Hodges (Oxford, Special Public Lecture), Ian Stewart (Warwick, Special Public Lecture), Dorit Aharonov (Jerusalem), Veronica Becher (Buenos Aires), Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon, The 2012 APAL Lecture), Rodney Downey (Wellington), Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft, The EACSL Lecture), Juris Hartmanis (Cornell), Richard Jozsa (Cambridge, jointly organised lecture with King's College), Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/ Santa Fe), James Murray (Oxford/Princeton, Microsoft Research Lecture), Stuart Shieber (Harvard), Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins) and Leslie Valiant (Harvard, jointly organised lecture with King's College). SPECIAL SESSIONS include: * Cryptography, Complexity, and Randomness Chairs: Rod Downey and Jack Lutz Speakers: Eric Allender, Laurent Bienvenu, Lance Fortnow, Valentine Kabanets, Omer Reingold, Alexander Shen * The Turing Test and Thinking Machines Chairs: Mark Bishop and Rineke Verbrugge Speakers: Bruce Edmonds, John Preston, Susan Sterrett, Kevin Warwick, Jiri Wiedermann + Panel Discussion on Future Directions * Computational Models After Turing: The Church-Turing Thesis and Beyond Chairs: Martin Davis and Wilfried Sieg Speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Peter Nemeti, Stewart Shapiro, Matthew Szudzik, Philip Welch, Michiel van Lambalgen * Morphogenesis/Emergence as a Computability Theoretic Phenomenon Chairs: Philip Maini and Peter Sloot Speakers: Jaap Kaandorp, Shigeru Kondo, Nick Monk, John Reinitz, James Sharpe, Jonathan Sherratt * Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information Chairs: Pieter Adriaans and Benedikt Loewe Speakers: Patrick Allo, Luis Antunes, Mark Finlayson, Amos Golan, Ruth Millikan + Panel Discussion on Future Directions * The Universal Turing Machine, and History of the Computer Chairs: Jack Copeland and John Tucker Speakers: Jack Copeland, Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Mark Priestley, Bruno Scarpellini, Robert I. Soare, John Tucker There will be the annual Women in Computability Workshop, supported by a grant from Elsevier, with contributions from Lenore Blum, Dorit Aharonov and Ann Copestake. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: * Samson Abramsky (Oxford) * Pieter Adriaans (Amsterdam) * Franz Baader (Dresden) * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea) * Mark Bishop (London) * Paola Bonizzoni (Milan) * Luca Cardelli (Cambridge) * Douglas Cenzer (Gainesville) * S Barry Cooper (Leeds, Co-chair) * Ann Copestake (Cambridge) * Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, Co-chair) * Solomon Feferman (Stanford) * Bernold Fiedler (Berlin) * Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire) * Martin Hyland (Cambridge) * Marcus Hutter (Canberra) * Viv Kendon (Leeds) * Stephan Kreutzer (Oxford) * Ming Li (Waterloo) * Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam) * Angus MacIntyre (London) * Philip Maini (Oxford) * Larry Moss (Bloomington) * Amitabha Mukerjee (Kanpur) * Damian Niwinski (Warsaw) * Dag Normann (Oslo) * Prakash Panangaden (Montreal) * Jeff Paris (Manchester) * Brigitte Pientka (Montreal) * Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich) * Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon) * Mariya Soskova (Sofia) * Bettina Speckmann (Eindhoven) * Christof Teuscher (Portland) * Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) * Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht) * Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Arnold Beckmann (Swansea), Luca Cardelli (Cambridge), S Barry Cooper (Leeds), Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, Chair), Bjarki Holm (Cambridge), Martin Hyland (Cambridge), Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam), Arno Pauly (Cambridge), Andrew Pitts (Cambridge) The conference is sponsored by the ASL, EACSL, EATCS, Elsevier, the IET, IFCoLog, King's College Cambridge, IOS Press, Springer, Science Magazine, The University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research. For a small poster to download and display: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/Images/cie12.poster.1000x1400.png Contact: cie-2012@cl.cam.ac.uk ********************************************************************** --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 15:10:29 +0100 From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: Seminar: Digital Critical Editions of Homer Institute of Classical Studies Digital Classicist Seminar 2012 Friday June 1st at 16:30 Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Chiara Salvagni (KCL) Digital Critical Editions of Homer I intend to discuss how the scholia to the Odyssey of Homer can be encoded in order to be part of a digital edition of the first book of the Odyssey, with special concern for their critical apparatus, starting with an analysis of how a printed edition of the scholia works. I will take into account the possibility of using the Open Source Critical Edition methodological framework for my work on the Odyssey, and the specific characteristic of the Homeric text, its oral origin and the Homeric question on the existence or non existence of Homer. 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, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html *Full 2012 Programme* June 1 Chiara Salvagni (KCL), Digital Critical Editions of Homer (G37) June 8 Jari Pakkanen (RHUL), Pattern detection in archaeological data: quantum modelling, Bronze Age Aegean lead weights and Greek Classical Doric architecture (G37) June 15 Angeliki Chrysanthi (Southampton), A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites (Court Room) June 22 Alejandro Giacometti, Lindsay MacDonald (UCL) & Alberto Campagnolo (University of the Arts), Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging (G37) June 29 Marco Buchler & Gregory Crane (Leipzig), Historical Text Re-use Detection on Perseus Digital Library (G37) July 6 Charlotte Tupman (KCL), Digital epigraphy beyond the Classical: creating (inter?)national standards for recording modern and early modern gravestones (G22/26) July 13 Maggie Robb (KCL), Digitising the Prosopography of the Roman Republic (G37) July 20 Paolo Monella (Centro Linceo, Roma), In the Tower of Babel: modelling primary sources of multi-testimonial textual transmissions (G37) All papers will be recorded and offered as a podcast or download from http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.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/ -- 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 Thu May 31 20:12:26 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D1E282E7D; Thu, 31 May 2012 20:12:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98C85282E65; Thu, 31 May 2012 20:12:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120531201224.98C85282E65@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:12:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.54 immersive technologies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 54. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 19:46:00 +1000 From: "Swirski, Teresa" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 26.51 immersive technologies; #Altac reflections In-Reply-To: <20120530201116.2D4E82821BC@woodward.joyent.us> I have come across some interesting links which I hope are of value to people who are exploring the relationship between immersive technologies and humanities/social sciences research: An intriguing project which is synthesising the virtual world, social networks and historical research is 'The Ola Nordmann Goes West' project at the University of Sheffield http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/virtual_world_ola_nordmann-1.174434: "Between the 1820s and the 1920s more than 800,000 Norwegians left for the Promised Land, which means that there are millions of American citizens today of Norwegian descent. Second Life, one of the most widely known examples of a virtual world, has 18 million registered users, and so we anticipate engaging with a lot of individuals with an interest in both the project's content and its design. "The project also aims to make a serious contribution to historical research methodology by trialling the use of online social networks as a tool for carrying out oral history and for engaging with informants. Its design also allows the team to investigate the relationship between historical record and collective memory and to evaluate how the actual historical experiences of the migrants have been distorted and redefined as the memory of them has been passed down through the generations." How the creation of such virtual worlds can enhance humanities research is paving the way for a myriad of rich exploratory and analytical possibilities ... http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hri/projects/projectpages/olanordmann: "Our second and principal research question is therefore: can a virtual world serve to mobilise and engage a dispersed and heterogeneous community of informants in a way conventional oral history techniques would find impossible? Can the creation of a virtual world (the world of a fictitious migrant from rural western Norway in the 1880s) enable a new type of encounter with history?" An upcoming international conference on urban history is similarly pushing the boundaries of what we know about historical research and virtual worlds http://www.chaia.uevora.pt/pt/event/88/11th-international-conference-on-urban-history.html and asking participants to consider: * Is the application of virtual world technology to historic research effectively broadening and enhancing the traditional context of the latter? * What are the limits and possibilities of these virtual environments for historical research? * How can we define conceptually and methodologically this new approach to the study of Urban History? * Is it possible to establish international quality standards such as the London Charter? * Current projects on virtual reconstruction use diverse software and applications available in the market; would it be better to develop software with the ideal requirements for historical research and reconstruction? * What are the potentialities of this new approach with regard to the promotion of comparative research, in an international context? A good article which contextualises 3D visualization research within the broader digital visualization context: Jessop, M. (2008). Digital visualization as a scholarly activity. Lit Linguist Computing, 23(3),281-293. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqn016 London Charter: http://www.londoncharter.org/ "The London Charter for the use of 3-dimensional visualisation in the research and communication of cultural heritage seeks to establish what is required for 3D visualisation to be, and to be seen to be, as intellectually rigorous and robust as any other research method" Paradata and transparency in virtual heritage ASHGATE ISBN 978-0-7546-7583-9 Editors: Anna Bentkowska-Kafel and Hugh Denard http://visualizationparadata.wordpress.com/1-2/ "The techniques and conceptual perspectives on heritage visualization are a subject of an ongoing interdisciplinary debate. By demonstrating scholarly excellence and best technical practice in this area, this volume is concerned with the challenge of providing intellectual transparency and accountability in visualization-based historical research. Addressing a range of cognitive and technological challenges, the authors make a strong case for a wider recognition of three-dimensional visualization as a constructive, intellectual process and valid methodology for historical research and its communication" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 31 20:13:44 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E182820CE; Thu, 31 May 2012 20:13:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D3CAD2820C4; Thu, 31 May 2012 20:13:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120531201342.D3CAD2820C4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:13:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.55 job at Virginia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 55. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:33:23 -0400 From: Sarah Wells Subject: job posting, Data Extraction Programmer, IATH/UVA Data Extraction Programmer Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia (http://www.iath.virginia.edu) is seeking a Data Extraction Programmer to design and implement methods for extracting data from Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids and MARC archival descriptions and then assemble this data into Encoded Archival Context-Corporate Body, Person, Families (EAC-CPF) descriptions. This person will also write XSLT transformations to convert XML-encoded authority descriptions and MARC bibliographic histories into EAC-CPF descriptions. The position will include using trainable NLP/NER software to identify and extract names from EAD-encoded finding aids, as well as using XML technologies, regular expressions, relational databases, and triple-store technologies to maintain data linkages and create access and contextual paths. A BS in computer science or information science, or one to four years of equivalent experience is required. A MS in computer science or information science is preferred. Experience with relational database design and implementation (e.g., SQL and web-access programming); general programming techniques (e.g., Java, JAVAScript, C++, Ruby, or Python); XML technologies, in particular XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 is preferred. This is a two-year grant-funded appointment, with a possible extension for additional years. For further information, please contact Daniel Pitti at 434-924-6954, dvp4c@virginia.edu. To apply, please go to jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=67459 or visit Jobs@UVA (https://jobs.virginia.edu) and search for posting number 0610025. Complete an online staff application, attaching a cover letter, resume and contact information for three references. This position will remain open until filled. The University of Virginia is committed to enhancing multicultural and gender diversity. It is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and encourages applications from women, members of underrepresented groups, people with disabilities, and veterans. ------------------------------------------------------------ Sarah Wells Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities spw4s@virginia.edu 434-924-4370 or 434-924-4527 O proud left foot, that ventures quick within Then soon upon a backward journey lithe. Anon, once more the gesture, then begin: Command sinistral pedestal to writhe. Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke, A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl. To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke. Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl. The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about. (Jeff Brechlin, Potomac Falls. Stolen from the Washington Post's Style Invitational Week CLXI) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 31 20:15:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A6E2826D6; Thu, 31 May 2012 20:15:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 310852826C7; Thu, 31 May 2012 20:15:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120531201532.310852826C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:15:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.56 publication & news: writing history; big data X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 56. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (18) Subject: Writing History in the Digital Age [2] From: Willard McCarty (18) Subject: big data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 06:56:33 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Writing History in the Digital Age Many here will be interested in a forthcoming book, Writing History in the Digital Age, ed Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, whose developing contents are online, at http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/. Following is their list of the questions they are asking: > 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, teach, author, and publish? > Does the digital age have broader implications for individual writing > processes, or for the historical profession at large? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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, 01 Jun 2012 06:03:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: big data Many here will be at least amused by Jeffrey R Young, "MIT Establishes Research Center to Harness ‘Big Data’", in the Wired Campus section of The Chronicle of Higher Education for 30 May, http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mit-establishes-research-center-to-harness-big-data/36441?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. What struck me is the following scenario: (1) big data, i.e. masses and masses of it; (2) mechanisms to make these data accessible online; (3) the small, individual researcher thinking the big thoughts that make human-scale sense of the data. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 31 20:16:26 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC454282717; Thu, 31 May 2012 20:16:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E22D4282704; Thu, 31 May 2012 20:16:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120531201624.E22D4282704@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:16:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.57 events: virtual heritage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 57. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:31:21 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: V-MusT Virtual Heritage School, 10-20 September 2012, London, UK V-MusT UK Summer School VIRTUAL RESTORATION AND RECONSTRUCTION in a LONDON CHARTER FRAMEWORK http://www.v-must.net/schools/united-kingdom-virtual-heritage-school Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 10-20 September 2012 The UK Virtual Heritage School explores the theory and best practice in heritage visualisation. The school is offered by the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, UK and is led by King's Visualisation Lab (KVL), which specialises in the creation of digital visualisations for historical research, archaeology and cultural heritage. KVL is well known for its leadership in establishing and promoting international standards for such work, most notably through the London Charter for the Computer-based Visualisation of Cultural Heritage. The School syllabus is guided by the principles of this charter. The School programme reflects the tutors' expertise in 3D documentation and visual representation for archaeology, historic buildings, museums and historical research. Through a combination of demonstrations, workshops, lectures and field trips, the School provides a sound overview of the range of digital visualisation technologies and methods used in the area of cultural heritage and virtual museums. Postgraduate students, early-career researchers and cultural heritage professionals are particularly encouraged to attend. International participants are welcome if proficient in English. The School runs for ten days and offers two paths: a theoretical strand, which can be taken alone (half-day), and a practical strand, which can be taken alongside the theoretical strand (full-day). The theoretical strand introduces participants to key topics in virtual cultural heritage and virtual museums, while the practical strand teaches participants how to use Open-Source digital image editing and 3D modelling software to virtually restore or reconstruct artefacts and monuments according to internationally-accepted principles of best practice. The School visualisation project will be concerned with the Roman(?) bath in Strand Lane, London. The School is run in co-operation with cultural institutions in central London and includes visits to the British Museum and University College London Museums and Collections. The fees for the entire school are £150 (theory) or £350 (theory & practice). Application deadlines: 31 July 2012 and 31 August 2012 The School is an activity of the Virtual Museums Transnational Network of Excellence (www.v-must.net). The Network is supported by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 2007/2013) under the Grant Agreement 270404. Please feel free to contact me for more information. Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk http://bentkowska.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 1 21:28:30 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6EA62822E5; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 21:28:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A67CF28217E; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 21:28:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120601212827.A67CF28217E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 21:28:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.58 studentship in visual anthropology at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 58. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:46:14 +0100 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Fully funded AHRC 3-year Studentship in visual anthropology at Oxford Following the award of an AHRC collaborative studentship to Professor David Zeitlyn (ISCA) and Dr Chris Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum) for 'Photographic cultures in Mbouda, Cameroon' in conjunction with the British Library, 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 visual cultures in Mbouda, west Cameroon, supervised by Professor David Zeitlyn, Dr Chris Morton (Oxford) and Dr Marion Wallace (British Library), with support from Lynda Barraclough (BL/Endangered Archives Programme). The student will undertake fieldwork in West Cameroon. Candidates should be able to demonstrate an interest in the study of photography and a commitment to ethnographic fieldwork in Cameroon. They should have a good Master?s degree and/or first degree in anthropology, museum studies or African studies. Some proficiency in French would be advantageous. A summary of the project is available from http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/ISCA/FUTURE_STUDENTS/ Further_Particulars_AHRC.pdf. Applicants must follow the usual application rules for admission as a Probationer Research Student (see http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/admissions/application- process/). Applicants are bound by AHRC eligibility criteria: only EU citizens can be given awards and for a full award UK residency is required. Please see the Humanities Division and AHRC pages for detailed guidance on this. http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/prospective_students/graduates/funding/ahrc/notes_of_guidance http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf The deadline for applications is 1 July 2012 and candidates should be ready to be called for interview for the studentship on 25th July 2012 at the British Library in London. It is expected that the successful candidate will take up the position in October 2012. Further enquiries about the position may be directed to david.zeitlyn@anthro.ox.ac.uk -- 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/prof-david-zeitlyn/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/ http://about.me/david.zeitlyn Google Scholar profile including h-index: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lYK4auAAAAAJÊ Oxford's open online anthropology journal: JASO online. http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/publications/JASO/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 1 21:30:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707B328249B; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 21:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 74DC1282485; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 21:30:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120601213052.74DC1282485@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 21:30:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.59 events: culture; representations; TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 59. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elena Pierazzo (25) Subject: TEI Conference: Deadline extension [2] From: Elisabeth Burr (139) Subject: "Culture & Technology" - 3rd European Summer School in Digital Humanities, 23 - 31 July 2012 University of Leipzig [3] From: Chiara Ambrosio (66) Subject: Workshop at UCL: Representations in Action --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 21:41:44 +0100 From: Elena Pierazzo Subject: TEI Conference: Deadline extension With usual apologies for cross-posting ========================= Dear All, I write to announce that we have extended the deadline for the TEI Conference: Please submit your abstract by the 11 of June. Just a reminder that we will accept submissions for • Papers • Panels and roundtables • Posters • Workshops and Tutorial We will announce the results of the peer review by the 30th of June. If you have any enquires, please get in touch with me or email meeting@tei-c.org. For the International Committee Elena Pierazzo -- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Chair of the Teaching Committee Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207-848-1949 Fax: 0207-848-2980 elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:57:11 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: "Culture & Technology" - 3rd European Summer School in Digital Humanities, 23 - 31 July 2012 University of Leipzig Following numerous requests the deadline for applications has been extended to the 15th of June 2012 3rd European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" , 23 - 31 July 2012, University of Leipzig http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ Supported by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing the Summer School will take place at Leipzig University, Germany, from the 23rd to the 31st of July 2012. Deadline for application: 15th of June 2012. Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the Summer School fees could be reduced considerably and a bursary scheme could be put into place. The Summer School is directed at 75 participants from all over Europe and beyond. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, and post docs from the Humanities, Engineering or Computer Sciences, as well as academics, librarians and technical assistants who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries or archives, or wish to do so are its target audience. The Summer School aims to provide a stimulating environment for discussing, learning and advancing knowledge and skills in the application of computer technologies to the Arts and Humanities, in libraries, archives, and similar fields. The Summer School seeks to integrate these activities into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, where questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds are asked. It further aims to provide insights into the complexity of humanistic data and the challenges the Humanities present for computer science and engineering and their further development. The Summer School takes place across 9 whole days. The intensive programme consists of workshops, daily public lectures, regular project presentations, poster sessions and two round tables. The workshops while focusing on essential questions such as XML Markup, the structuring of documents, the investigation and categorisation of style via statistical methods and the analysis of corpora, address also Art History from the perspective of Digital Humanities, and provide an introduction to the employment of virtual research infrastructures in Humanities research. A workshop will demonstrate how the interdisciplinary investigation of multimodal communication between humans and between humans and machines produces not only a new theory of multimodal human / machine communication, but also new theory and praxis of the annotation of video, audio, prosody, syntax and pragmatics which plays such a central role in the remedialisation of our cultural heritage. Likewise a workshop will be offered on project management, which is becoming increasingly important as a result of the tendency towards project-centred research in the interdisciplinary Digital Humanities. The results of the individual workshops will be aired in plenary sessions. * Computing Methods applied to DH: XML Markup and Document Structuring * Stylometry * Query in Text Corpora * Art history and the critical analysis of corpora * Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of multimodal human-human / human-machine communication * TextGrid * Project Management Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Information on how to apply for a place in one of the workshops and for a bursary can be found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/. Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and who submit a qualified project description. Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non-specialists can follow, and to support what they hope to learn from the summer school with good arguments. The call for the Summer School should also be intended as a call for project presentation. We expect above all the young scholars who participate in the Summer School to present their projects. Next to projects of the participants of the Summer School advanced institutional and / or funded projects by scholars from the Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering will be presented. Please note that we are planning to publish the projects which have been selected for presentation together with the lectures given by our internationally renowned specialists. The public lectures will seek to handle questions posed by the development of Virtual Research Infrastructures for the Humanities from the perspective of the Humanities, their own ways of working and their specific types of data. The Summer School will feature also two round table discussions focusing on Virtual Research Infrastructures which serve the Digital Humanities, and on Digital Humanities Summer Schools. All questions regarding the programme of the Summer School, the selection of the participants as well as the selection of projects for eventual publication are handled by the international scientific committee of the European Summer School composed of: · Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow (Great Britain) · Alex Bia, Universidad Miguel Hernández in Elche (Spain) · Dino Buzzetti, Università di Bologna (Italy) · Elisabeth Burr, Universität Leipzig (Germany) · Laszlo Hunyadi, University of Debrecen (Hungary) · Jan Rybicki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraków (Poland) · Corinne Welger-Barboza, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) For all relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. Elisabeth Burr Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/quebec/ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gal2010 http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr/JISU/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:10:30 +0100 From: Chiara Ambrosio Subject: Workshop at UCL: Representations in Action Representations in Action: Visual Practices in Art and Science A one-day workshop organised by the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London Tuesday 19 June 10.30am – 6.00pm, followed by a reception and art pop-up at the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy Venue: Archaeology G6 LT, UCL Campus Room Location: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/roombooking/building-location/?id=090 Local Organizer: Chiara Ambrosio (c.ambrosio@ucl.ac.uk), Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London Keynote Speaker: Prof. Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Further information and abstracts at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/engage_academics/conferences/visual The conference is free and open to the public, but places are limited. To register please contact Alasdair Tatam at a.tatam@ucl.ac.uk. Representations constitute a crucial common link between scientific and artistic visual practices. Integrating the history, philosophy and sociology of scientific and artistic representations, this one-day workshop will explore how representations function first and foremost as experimental practices and as guidelines to practical judgements in science and in the visual arts. The aim of the workshop is to explore the role of representations “in action” -- that is, their function as practices that partake of a process of inquiry. Drawing on historical and contemporary case-studies, the contributions to the workshop will present a range of arguments that will place visual practices in science and the visual arts, along with their commonalities and tensions, at the centre of current epistemological and historiographical debates on the dynamics of scientific observation and visualization, the quest for objectivity and the evaluative practices that implicitly inform the construction and use of representations. Speakers: Mauricio Suárez Department of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense, Madrid "The Modelling Attitude in 19th Century Physics" Annamaria Carusi Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen "Errors, lies, fictions, and other (mis) representations" Antony Hudek Institute of Archaeology, University College London "When exhibitions become science fairs: episodes in a history of conceptual art" Kelley Wilder Photographic History Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester "Exhibiting Scientific Applied Photography" Chiara Ambrosio, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London "Reconnecting Representations and Practices: Lessons from Art" Keynote Lecture Lorraine Daston Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin "The Physiognomy of the Sky and the Limits of Representation" -- Dr. Chiara Ambrosio Teaching Fellow in Philosophy of Science Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Tel. (+44) 02076790166 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/ambrosio http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/basc/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 1 22:03:22 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A88282B74; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 22:03:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F70A282B5E; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 22:03:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120601220320.8F70A282B5E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 22:03:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.60 between the idea and the reality? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 60. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:00:30 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: between the idea and the reality? Some here may know that in 1970 Masahiro Mori, in "The Uncanny Valley" (Energy 7.4: 33-5), argued that in the progress of robotics toward increasingly humanoid appearance and action (where that is the goal of the designer), human psychological response to the robot is increasingly positive until a certain point of near resemblance. At that point, quite suddenly, this response becomes strongly negative. In other words, we freak out (as one used to say). Response stays negative until the resemblance has become considerably closer and then becomes positive again. Some will claim that James Cameron's movie Avatar marks the first popular VR creation to have made it to the other side of this uncanny valley. Clearly if your goal in the design of computational devices is for the artificiality of the device to pass unnoticed, then you want to get to the other side of the valley as soon as possible. It might be argued, however, that in doing so you lose big time: you lose the challenge to our conception of ourselves. You design for a mirror, or we could say an artificial companion or collaborator, for which a human could be substituted. Perhaps you design for a particular kind of collaborator, say someone who talks like a behaviourist of the Skinnerian kind, or a perfect Chomsky linguist, or a Bakhtin. Certainly in the near to medium-term future, the companion will be dogmatic, a stereotypical sort. This might be rather interesting. But still I cannot help but think that the goal needs some serious questioning. I think that an AI person (any here correct me if I am wrong) would argue that it's only a matter of time until this goal is close enough that our not having thought it through would become a serious error. Let's assume that to be the case. We are closer to the goal than many of us may suppose. Talk to an automobile designer, for example. What do you think? In the design of research environments what exactly do we want to have? I would argue that what we do not want, or should not want, is the perfect (amoral) slave. But if not that, then what? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 3 20:22:22 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6AD282779; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:22:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8381228273E; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:22:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120603202219.8381228273E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:22:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.61 between idea and reality X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 61. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:30:35 +0200 From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.60 between the idea and the reality? In-Reply-To: <20120601220320.8F70A282B5E@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, You seem to describe a cultural attitude of "awe" towards an artificial intelligent agent "in the progress of robotics," as developed in Mori's article. I would need to know more about your example, but it reminds me of the "reluctant approach" customary in polite Japanese social communication. Cultural anthropologists have developed tools to discuss cultural attitudes among other things. Romantic literature and science abound with wonderful and astonishing analogies with respect to new inventions, like stolen shadows, humunculi, Mephistopheles, etc. Of course, these also reflect cultural attitudes as such, more than they reveal about the particular invention in question. There was a time during the 1980s and 1990s when such literary parallels filled the journals of the re-invented historiography of photography. I chanced across a passage re-reading Vannevar Bush's visionary 1945 article "As We May Think," where he writes about the inflation of information that will never reach the stage of embodied knowledge (quoted here from the electronic version at http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml): "The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers - conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. [...] Mendel's concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is undoubtedly being repeated all about us, as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential." It is worthwhile to remind us of the innovations soon to come as Bush envisioned them: "But there are signs of a change as new and powerful instrumentalities come into use. Photocells capable of seeing things in a physical sense, advanced photography which can record what is seen or even what is not, thermionic tubes capable of controlling potent forces under the guidance of less power than a mosquito uses to vibrate his wings, cathode ray tubes rendering visible an occurrence so brief that by comparison a microsecond is a long time, relay combinations which will carry out involved sequences of movements more reliably than any human operator and thousands of times as fast - there are plenty of mechanical aids with which to effect a transformation in scientific records." It is clear to see that Bush's projections result from a fully developed knowledge of the physical theory of his days, and not from analogies. It would be off the track to infer that his Memex machine and consequently the Personal Computer was modelled after a file desk, although he uses the word "desk" when he introduces his vision of the Memex. Looking back on how little has been accomplished by the "romantic" school of the historiography of photography, as regards the actual preservation of and public accessibility to existing archives of historical photographs, I feel that something more is needed here, just as Vannevar Bush seems to write: "The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were erected." Best regards, Hartmut Am 02/06/2012 00:03, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 60. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: > humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:00:30 +1000 From: Willard > McCarty and the reality? > > Some here may know that in 1970 Masahiro Mori, in "The Uncanny Valley" > (Energy 7.4: 33-5), argued that in the progress of robotics toward > increasingly humanoid appearance and action (where that is the goal of the > designer), human psychological response to the robot is increasingly > positive until a certain point of near resemblance. At that point, quite > suddenly, this response becomes strongly negative. In other words, we > freak out (as one used to say). Response stays negative until the > resemblance has become considerably closer and then becomes positive > again. Some will claim that James Cameron's movie Avatar marks the first > popular VR creation to have made it to the other side of this uncanny > valley. > > Clearly if your goal in the design of computational devices is for the > artificiality of the device to pass unnoticed, then you want to get to the > other side of the valley as soon as possible. It might be argued, however, > that in doing so you lose big time: you lose the challenge to our > conception of ourselves. You design for a mirror, or we could say an > artificial companion or collaborator, for which a human could be > substituted. Perhaps you design for a particular kind of collaborator, say > someone who talks like a behaviourist of the Skinnerian kind, or a perfect > Chomsky linguist, or a Bakhtin. Certainly in the near to medium-term > future, the companion will be dogmatic, a stereotypical sort. This might > be rather interesting. But still I cannot help but think that the goal > needs some serious questioning. > > I think that an AI person (any here correct me if I am wrong) would argue > that it's only a matter of time until this goal is close enough that our > not having thought it through would become a serious error. Let's assume > that to be the case. We are closer to the goal than many of us may > suppose. Talk to an automobile designer, for example. > > What do you think? In the design of research environments what exactly do > we want to have? I would argue that what we do not want, or should not > want, is the perfect (amoral) slave. But if not that, then what? > > Comments? > > Yours, WM > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 3 20:23:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECEE728284D; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:23:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55A2128281C; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:23:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120603202353.55A2128281C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:23:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.62 events: Turing, at Manchester, 22-25/6 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 62. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 11:39:14 +0100 From: S B Cooper Subject: Turing Centenary Conference, Manchester, June 22-25: Call for Participation THE TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE Manchester, UK, June 22-25, 2012 http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/ Call for Participation NEWS: (1) The early registration deadline has been extended to June 11, 2012 (2) The organisers have funds for supporting participants. Please write to the programme chair if support is essential for your attendance. The programme includes 18 invited talks (of which 10 are given by Turing Award winners), 2 public talks, 2 panels, a poster session, a chess programme and a competition of programs proving theorems. Public lectures: -- Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Alan Turing, Pioneer of the Information Age -- Sir Roger Penrose (University of Oxford, Wolf Prize winner) The Problem of Modelling the Mathematical Mind Invited lectures: -- Garry Kasparov (Kasparov Chess Foundation) The Reconstruction of Turing's "Paper Machine" -- Vint Cerf (Google, Turing Award winner) Turing's Legacy in the Networked World -- David Ferrucci (IBM) Beyond Jeopardy! The Future of Watson -- Don Knuth (Stanford University, Turing Award winner) All Remaining Questions Answered -- Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science, Turing Award winner) Turing's Cryptography from a Modern Perspective -- Samuel Klein (Wikipedia) TBC -- George Ellis (University of Cape Town, Templeton Award winner) On the Nature of Causation in Digital Computer Systems -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (University of North Carolina, Turing Award winner) Pilot ACE Architecture in Context -- Sir Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research, Turing Award winner) Can Computers Understand Their Own Programs? -- Edmund M. Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University, Turing Award winner) Model Checking and the Curse of Dimensionality -- Michael O. Rabin (Harvard University, Turing Award winner) Turing, Church, Gödel, Computability, Complexity and Randomization: A Personal Perspective -- Leslie Valiant (Harvard University, Turing Award winner) Computer Science as a Natural Science -- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Tsinghua University, Turing Award winner) Quantum Computing: A Great Science in the Making -- Manuela M. Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University) Symbiotic Autonomy: Robots, Humans, and the Web -- Rodney Brooks (MIT) Turing's Humanoid Thinking Machines -- Hans Meinhardt (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) Turing's Pioneering Paper 'The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis and the Subsequent Development of Theories of Biological Pattern Formation -- Yuri Matiyasevich (Institute of Mathematics, St. Petersburgh) Alan Turing and Number Theory Panel speakers: -- Samson Abramsky (Oxford University) -- Ron Brachman (Yahoo Labs) -- Martin Davis (New York University) -- Steve Furber (The University of Manchester) -- Carole Goble (The University of Manchester) -- Pat Hayes (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola) -- Bertrand Meyer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) -- Moshe Vardi (Rice University) For more details please check http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/. REGISTRATION: The number of participants is limited. Register early to avoid disappointment! To register, access https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=turing100 and click on "Registration". *** Registration fees *** All fees are in Pound Sterling. early (on or before June 11) late (June 12 or later) Student 280 330 Regular 380 450 To qualify for a student registration you must be a registered full-time student on June 23, 2012. The registration fees include - Attendance of sessions - Conference reception - Conference dinner - Coffee breaks and lunches - Poster session proceedings CHAIRS: Honorary Chairs: Rodney Brooks (MIT) Roger Penrose (Oxford) Conference Chairs: Matthias Baaz (Vienna University of Technology) Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester) Turing Fellowships Chair: Barry Cooper (University of Leeds) Theorem Proving Competition Chair: Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami) Computer Chess Programme Chair Frederic Friedel (Chessbase) Programme Chair Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Alan Turing Year: http://www.turingcentenary.eu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 4 20:19:33 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D230282BBF; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 20:19:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 65438282BAD; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 20:19:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120604201931.65438282BAD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 20:19:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.63 when does the subject enter in? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 63. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:53:11 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computational models Paul Humphreys, in "Computational models", Philosophy of Science 69.S3 (September 2002): S1-S11, proposes that we look at the organization of the sciences not by the usual mereological (parts and wholes) structure, proceeding from the smallest physical units to the largest ones, but by the models they use. He points out the often noticed fact that certain models apply seemingly across the board to many quite different phenomena, e.g. from enzyme reactions to predatory behaviour. He describes a structure for models beginning with a "computational template", then its construction assumptions, correction set, interpretation, initial justification and last, output representation. The template is the basis of the portability of the model, its syntax, the other elements constraints on it that make it application specific. He argues that although the template is often very portable, it is never interpretation-free -- hence the construction assumptions. But it is often remarkably portable. You can follow his argument at leisure, but here I want to highlight the interesting question he raises at the end: > at what points in the process of the construction and evaluation of > computational models does subject-specific knowledge enter? (S10) We have all doubtless noticed the same kind of thing happening in the digital humanities; we tend to identify the portable, non-subject-specific aspect of what we do as method, or if we're feeling the need for being scientific, formal methods. But more specifically in terms of what we do, it is the orientation to modelling that makes the digital humanities interdisciplinary in a way that other fields, I would suppose, cannot be. So let me raise Humphreys' question in our context: at what point does the subject-specific knowledge enter in? Take, for example, the simplest sort of text-analysis, a.k.a. interactive concording. This applies across the board to all subjects in which a focus on how something is said matters: literary studies, linguistics, history, sociology and others. Is there anything systematic that can be said about when and how it matters what discipline is asking the questions? Or, to put the question the other way around, is there anything systematic we can say (other than remarks about a rigorous focus on the verbal data etc) about how the computational template at work here affects the discipline asking the questions? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 6 20:38:25 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C337282EEF; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:38:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4E76282EDC; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:38:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120606203823.C4E76282EDC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:38:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.64 when the subject enters in X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 64. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:53:22 +0100 From: Henry Francis Lynam Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.63 when does the subject enter in? In-Reply-To: <20120604201931.65438282BAD@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, As a programmer looking in on the world of digital humanities, the popularity of certain models has often struck me as noteworthy. I wonder is this because the class of problems are very similar and hence the same formal methods have great applicability? But I suspect it is more because of the training followed by digital humanists who tend to be humanists firsts and programmers second. A good programmer approaches each problem as essentially unique and applies known methodologies as appropriate. But there is a tendency in digital humanities to employ formal (learned) methods too early in the process, potentially robbing the problem of its uniqueness. Rather than seeing the application of the same formal methods as a strength of digital humanities, I might suggest that it hinders innovation, by prematurely categorizing problems into known methodologies. So, in answer to your question, I think the subject-specific knowledge is often the bit that remains after the problem has been artificially determined to be of type X, suitable for method Y. If a different designer were to solve the problem (perhaps with different formal training) they might decide that there is more subject-specific knowledge contained in the problem. So, I think it is quite subjective. Yours, Henry Lynam. On 4 June 2012 21:19, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 63. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:53:11 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: computational models > > > Paul Humphreys, in "Computational models", Philosophy of Science 69.S3 > (September 2002): S1-S11, proposes that we look at the organization of > the sciences not by the usual mereological (parts and wholes) structure, > proceeding from the smallest physical units to the largest ones, but by > the models they use. He points out the often noticed fact that certain > models apply seemingly across the board to many quite different > phenomena, e.g. from enzyme reactions to predatory behaviour. He > describes a structure for models beginning with a "computational > template", then its construction assumptions, correction set, > interpretation, initial justification and last, output representation. > The template is the basis of the portability of the model, its syntax, > the other elements constraints on it that make it application specific. > He argues that although the template is often very portable, it is never > interpretation-free -- hence the construction assumptions. But it is > often remarkably portable. > > You can follow his argument at leisure, but here I want to highlight the > interesting question he raises at the end: > > > at what points in the process of the construction and evaluation of > > computational models does subject-specific knowledge enter? (S10) > > We have all doubtless noticed the same kind of thing happening in the > digital humanities; we tend to identify the portable, > non-subject-specific aspect of what we do as method, or if we're feeling > the need for being scientific, formal methods. But more specifically in > terms of what we do, it is the orientation to modelling that makes the > digital humanities interdisciplinary in a way that other fields, I would > suppose, cannot be. So let me raise Humphreys' question in our context: > at what point does the subject-specific knowledge enter in? > > Take, for example, the simplest sort of text-analysis, a.k.a. > interactive concording. This applies across the board to all subjects in > which a focus on how something is said matters: literary studies, > linguistics, history, sociology and others. Is there anything systematic > that can be said about when and how it matters what discipline is asking > the questions? Or, to put the question the other way around, is there > anything systematic we can say (other than remarks about a rigorous > focus on the verbal data etc) about how the computational template at > work here affects the discipline asking the questions? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, > 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 6 20:39:40 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D13282F48; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:39:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A5D1282F2C; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:39:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120606203939.1A5D1282F2C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:39:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.65 ACH events and initiatives: an invitation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 65. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:30:20 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Re: open agenda-setting at ACH: all welcome! In-Reply-To: <999A0645-0119-45BC-984F-C019CD332492@eservices.virginia.edu> Dear colleagues -- Last month, we invited you to participate in an ACH experiment in grassroots agenda-setting. Over 2600 votes were cast by digital humanists on five continents, and the community contributed 26 ideas in all. Full results and a first follow-up message are here: http://ach.org/ach-agenda-setting-next-steps -- and the poll will remain open until after this summer's DH conference in Hamburg. In the meantime, you are warmly invited to subscribe to our (low-traffic) ACH newsletter: http://bit.ly/M8EbIj This will help you stay up-to-date on opportunities to get involved with the association, and on ACH events and initiatives. We will also share news about the conversations we will host and the reflections and progress reports we plan to offer, as -- with the help of our partners in ADHO -- we explore the ideas this process has surfaced. With thanks, Bethany Nowviskie Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute President, Association for Computers & the Humanities scholarslab.org/ ● uvasci.org/ ● ach.org/ On May 8, 2012, at 9:04 AM, wrote: Dear colleagues -- This year, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is working toward more open and transparent agenda-setting as a professional society. We look to you to help us better serve our diverse, international digital humanities community -- by generating new ideas for us to explore, and helping to prioritize items that are already on our Executive Council's agenda. To that end, we are launching an "idea marketplace" using a transparent, grassroots, pairwise voting system called "All Our Ideas:" http://ach.org/open-agenda-setting-2012 The system will present you with two ideas chosen at random from our community-generated pool, and will ask you to click on the one you find more important for ACH in 2012. You can also decline to decide between the two ideas, or add a suggestion of your own. A "view results" tab reveals the whole set of contributed ideas (helpful to read before suggesting a new one!) as ranked by the community. ACH can't undertake every project you suggest, but we do promise to take our members' and community's views very seriously and to address as many of them as we can, in open dialogue. Both association members and non-members are welcome to contribute to this process, and we are only moderating new submissions to prevent unproductive overlap or to clarify language. Thanks, as always, for your energy and good ideas -- and for inspiring us to work harder and do better! On behalf of the officers and Executive Council of the ACH, Bethany Nowviskie Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D President, Association for Computers & the Humanities Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute scholarslab.org/ ● uvasci.org/ ● ach.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 6 20:44:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C111B282102; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:44:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E966A2820F1; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:44:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120606204412.E966A2820F1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:44:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.66 events: visualisation X 2; archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 66. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Annamaria Carusi (33) Subject: Deadline Extended: ESF Conference on Images and Visualisation in Science [2] From: Chiara Ambrosio (67) Subject: Workshop at UCL: Representations in Action [3] From: Sarah Wells (15) Subject: THATCamp for computational archaeology --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 13:08:20 +0100 From: Annamaria Carusi Subject: Deadline Extended: ESF Conference on Images and Visualisation in Science The European Science Foundation Conference on Images and Visualisation in Science is now 17th June. We invite people to attend or to apply to give a short talk (10-15 minutes) or poster at our European Science Foundation conference, ?Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust? on the 17th to 21st September, 2012. The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from across the natural and social sciences, with curators, artists, producers and users of images based on advanced visual engineering. The conference will be interested in the construction, circulation and interpretation of images from across the sciences with a specific interest in articulating common issues and differences across the scales of representation. For more information please see the conference website or contact the organisers. If you?d like to discuss a potential presentation then do please get in touch with Andrew.balmer@manchester.ac.uk Some funding is available and this may cover costs of the conference and/or travel fees for accepted proposals. Submissions are particularly welcome from PhD students and early career scholars. Decisions on presentations and funding will be made on the basis of merit and relevance. The conference already has a stellar list of speakers, please see the programme here: http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/details/2012/confdetail385/385-preliminary-programme.html To apply to present at what we hope will be an exciting and productive event please complete the registration form here: http://www2.esf.org/asp/esfrcaf.asp?confcode=385&meetno=1 If you would like to attend the conference but not to speak or present a poster then of course you are welcome and we encourage you to register using the link above. The conference website is here: http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=9115 DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION/APPLICATIONS: 15th June 2012 Andy Balmer, Brigitte Nerlich and Annamaria Carusi Begin forwarded message: > From: Annamaria Carusi > > Date: 7 March 2012 11:04:41 GMT > Subject: ESF Conference on Images and Visualisation in Science Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust 17-21 September 2012 Norköping, Sweden Deadline 6th June Both Leonardo da Vinci and John Constable claimed that painting is a science. This science has been explored extensively in traditional aesthetics and art history. Given recent advances in science and visual engineering, creating images for science, of science and for the translation (interpretation) of science has become at one and the same time commonplace, even easy, and even more scientific. The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from across the natural and social sciences, with curators, artists, producers and users of images based on advanced visual engineering. By exploring emerging challenges at the interface between advanced visualisation technologies, truth and trust we want to stimulate talk, interaction and collaboration between the arts, humanities and (natural, medical, engineering, computer) sciences, in a context where both science and (visual) art are increasingly converging and, at the same time, disciplinary boundaries still separate those working across them. To learn more about this conference, go to http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=9115 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:05:29 +0100 From: Chiara Ambrosio Subject: Workshop at UCL: Representations in Action Representations in Action: Visual Practices in Art and Science A one-day workshop organised by the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London Tuesday 19 June 10.30am – 6.00pm, followed by a reception and art pop-up at the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy Venue: Archaeology G6 LT, UCL Campus Room Location: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/estates/roombooking/building-location/?id=090 Local Organizer: Chiara Ambrosio (c.ambrosio@ucl.ac.uk), Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London Keynote Speaker: Prof. Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Further information and abstracts at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/engage_academics/conferences/visual The conference is free and open to the public, but places are limited. To register please contact Alasdair Tatam at a.tatam@ucl.ac.uk. Representations constitute a crucial common link between scientific and artistic visual practices. Integrating the history, philosophy and sociology of scientific and artistic representations, this one-day workshop will explore how representations function first and foremost as experimental practices and as guidelines to practical judgements in science and in the visual arts. The aim of the workshop is to explore the role of representations “in action” -- that is, their function as practices that partake of a process of inquiry. Drawing on historical and contemporary case-studies, the contributions to the workshop will present a range of arguments that will place visual practices in science and the visual arts, along with their commonalities and tensions, at the centre of current epistemological and historiographical debates on the dynamics of scientific observation and visualization, the quest for objectivity and the evaluative practices that implicitly inform the construction and use of representations. Speakers: Mauricio Suárez Department of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense, Madrid "The Modelling Attitude in 19th Century Physics" Annamaria Carusi Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen "Errors, lies, fictions, and other (mis) representations" Antony Hudek Institute of Archaeology, University College London "When exhibitions become science fairs: episodes in a history of conceptual art" Kelley Wilder Photographic History Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester "Exhibiting Scientific Applied Photography" Chiara Ambrosio, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London "Reconnecting Representations and Practices: Lessons from Art" Keynote Lecture Lorraine Daston Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin "The Physiognomy of the Sky and the Limits of Representation" -- Dr. Chiara Ambrosio Teaching Fellow in Philosophy of Science Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Tel. (+44) 02076790166 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/ambrosio http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/basc/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:25:12 +0100 From: Sarah Wells Subject: THATCamp for computational archaeology In-Reply-To: The Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) North American chapter is pleased to announce THATCamp for computational archaeology, co-sponsored by the University of Virginia Library Year of Metadata and Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library. It will be held Friday, August 10, 2012 in the Harrison-Small Special Collections Library of U.Va., Charlottesville, Virginia. The registration period for the event is now open and closes June 10. It is free to attend! THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) CAA-NA is an "unconference" with the mission of facilitating communication and collaboration between students, scholars, professionals, and other interested individuals within archaeology and related disciplines. General themes (borrowed from CAA 2012, held in Southampton, UK) are as follows: * Simulating the Past * Spatial Analysis * Data Modelling & Sharing * Data Analysis, Management, Integration & Visualisation * Geospatial Technologies * Field & Lab Recording * Theoretical Approaches & Context of Archaeological Computing * Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia, Museums Please visit http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/ for more information. Inquiries can be made to thatcampcaana@gmail.com. You can follow us on twitter at @THATCampCAANA Look forward to seeing you there, Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 6 21:06:36 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040E428249D; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:06:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D3B4A28243E; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:06:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120606210633.D3B4A28243E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:06:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.67 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 67. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:04:20 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: aesthetic computing Some here may know of a movement known as aesthetic computing, begun by Paul Fishwick and others at the University of Florida, launched at a conference in Dagstuhl, Germany, in July 2002, and now discussed in an edited volume, Aesthetic Computing (MIT Press, 2006) as well as in numerous other places, including Fishwick's site, "The Content is in the Machine", http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/aescomputing/. The following is quoted from his introduction to the book: > Aesthetic computing is the application of aesthetics to computing. > The goal of aesthetic computing is to affect areas within computing, > which for our purposes, will be defined broadly as the area of > computer science. With respect to aesthetics, this goal also includes > the idea that the application of aesthetics to computing and > mathematics, the formal foundations for computing, can extend beyond > classic concepts such as symmetry and invariance to encompass the > wide range of aesthetic definitions and categories normally > associated with making art. It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with computing in the arts that the journal Leonardo and its executive editor Roger Malina are deeply involved. What seems to me especially significant about this movement for the digital humanities is the reversal of the usual tendency to think of computing as an external impacting force coming down on the disciplines of the humanities to which the disciplines then respond. And this is much more than formulating interesting problems for computer scientists to solve so that people in the arts can get on with their work. This, it seems to me, is a partial realisation of the much overlooked fact that, as Michael Mahoney used to insist, Turing's gift is a scheme for the devising of indefinitely many computings, limited only by the human imagination (which of course has no limits). So what about the other disciplines with which we are concerned? How about a *literary* computing in Fishwick's sense? Or, to bring back a discarded term, how about a *humanities* computing? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 Jun 7 20:08:26 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87A9283E01; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:08:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C348F283DEF; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:08:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120607200824.C348F283DEF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:08:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.68 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 68. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:38:38 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.67 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120606210633.D3B4A28243E@woodward.joyent.us> The only difficulty in this notion is that Æsthetics, as a branch of philosophy, traditional, is even more vague and ambiguous a realm, and resistant to [the absolute of] definition that is the Moral branch [pace E. Kant]. How can it be blithely assumed that more than a [funded(?)] coven may have a useful clue about the matter? Jascha Kessler On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 67. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:04:20 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: aesthetic computing > > > Some here may know of a movement known as aesthetic computing, begun by > Paul Fishwick and others at the University of Florida, launched at a > conference in Dagstuhl, Germany, in July 2002, and now discussed in an > edited volume, Aesthetic Computing (MIT Press, 2006) as well as in > numerous other places, including Fishwick's site, "The Content is in the > Machine", http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/aescomputing/. The following > is quoted from his introduction to the book: > > > Aesthetic computing is the application of aesthetics to computing. > > The goal of aesthetic computing is to affect areas within computing, > > which for our purposes, will be defined broadly as the area of > > computer science. With respect to aesthetics, this goal also includes > > the idea that the application of aesthetics to computing and > > mathematics, the formal foundations for computing, can extend beyond > > classic concepts such as symmetry and invariance to encompass the > > wide range of aesthetic definitions and categories normally > > associated with making art. > > It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with computing in the > arts that the journal Leonardo and its executive editor Roger Malina are > deeply involved. > > What seems to me especially significant about this movement for the > digital humanities is the reversal of the usual tendency to think of > computing as an external impacting force coming down on the disciplines > of the humanities to which the disciplines then respond. And this is > much more than formulating interesting problems for computer scientists > to solve so that people in the arts can get on with their work. This, it > seems to me, is a partial realisation of the much overlooked fact that, > as Michael Mahoney used to insist, Turing's gift is a scheme for the > devising of indefinitely many computings, limited only by the human > imagination (which of course has no limits). > > So what about the other disciplines with which we are concerned? How > about a *literary* computing in Fishwick's sense? Or, to bring back a > discarded term, how about a *humanities* computing? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist > (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- 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 Thu Jun 7 20:17:05 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2017283F1C; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:17:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9DE6A283F05; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:17:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120607201703.9DE6A283F05@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:17:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.69 events: XML; virtual heritage; tool development X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 69. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (55) Subject: HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp: Save The Date [2] From: Tommie Usdin (14) Subject: QA and QC in XML - Symposium Program Posted [3] From: Mª Ángeles Hernández-Barahona (48) Subject: Geman Summer School 2012 on developing "VR and AR Apps" for theVirtual Heritage --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:58:37 -0400 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp: Save The Date SAVE THE DATE! HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp A 1.5 Day Event Sept 10-11, 2012 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN [For more on the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) see http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc] Mark your calendars. HTRC is hosting its first annual HTRC UnCamp in September 2012 at Indiana University in Bloomington. The UnCamp is different: it is part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting of an un-conference programming format. It has visionary speakers mixed with boot-camp activities and hands-on sessions with HTRC infrastructure and tools. Through the HTRC Data API, attendees will be able to browse and run applications (yours or ours) against the full 2.8M volumes of the public domain corpus of HathiTrust. Bloomington is lovely in September and the IU campus is noted as one of the most beautiful public university campuses in the nation. Who should attend? The HTRC UnCamp is targeted to digital humanities tool developers, researchers and librarians of HathiTrust member institutions, researchers and librarians from non-member institutions, and graduate students: in short, if you are interested in in digital humanities and/or working with the HathiTrust collections, you should think about joining us. However, attendance will be capped at 60 participants, so plan to register early! Travel funds and Registration. HTRC anticipates funding a small number of travel grants that can be used by an attendee to bring along a graduate student, or for a HathiTrust member librarian/technologist to bring along a researcher from their organization who is interested in engaging with our research center. The Uncamp will have a minimal registration fee so as to make the Uncamp as affordable as possible for you to attend. http://d2i.indiana.edu/htrc/uncamp2012 http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc If you have questions or suggestions regarding the Uncamp please feel free to contact Robert Ping: Robert Ping, Project Manager 812 345-1065 (cell) Looking forward to seeing you in Bloomington! Cheers, Beth Plale, HTRC Co-director, Indiana University J. Stephen Downie, HTRC Co-director, University of Illinois -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 NEMA Project Home: http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:41:17 -0400 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: QA and QC in XML - Symposium Program Posted ANNOUNCEMENT: The program for the International Symposium on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in XML is available at: http://www.balisage.net/QA-QC/index.html The International Symposium on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in XML will be held on Monday August 6, 2012 at the Hotel Europa, Montréal, Canada, the day before Balisage: The Markup Conference begins in the same location. This one-day discussion of issues relating to Quality Control and Quality Assurance in the XML environment will begin with an introductory overview of quality-control issues in complex XML workflows by Dale Waldt of LexisNexis, followed by a discussion of quality control of schemas and vocabulary definitions from Eric van der Vlist of Dyomedea. Case studies reporting on quality assurance techniques used by the U.S. National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central, Portico, Scholars Portal, and the American Chemical Society make up the central part of the day. Steve DeRose of OpenAmplify will discuss ways in which text analytics tools can change the boundaries of the validatable, discussing both existing technology and open challenges. The final part of the day is devoted to an open-mike discussion among symposium participants and to a concluding summary and round-up of the day by Mary McRae. Symposium Description: http://www.balisage.net/QA-QC/index.html Detailed Symposium Program: http://www.balisage.net/QA-QC/QA-QC-Program.html More information, email: info@balisage.net ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012 mailto:info@balisage.net August 7-10, 2012 http://www.balisage.net Preconference Symposium on QA & QC in XML August 6, 2012 ====================================================================== --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 14:58:19 +0100 From: Mª Ángeles Hernández-Barahona Subject: Geman Summer School 2012 on developing "VR and AR Apps" for theVirtual Heritage CALL FOR PARTICIPATION to the first German Virtual Heritage School - Year 2012 GNSS 2012 – German National Summer School on “Developing VR and AR Apps” for the digital cultural heritage Saalburg, Germany, 3-7 September 2012 *************************************************************** This is the first edition of the german national summer school conducted by the Fraunhofer IGD. The school introduces participants to the new field on web deployment of VR and web based AR Applications ("VR/AR Apps") as well as related topics on applied CG technology in the area of virtual and augmented digital heritage, 3D reconstruction, technological tools dedicated to processing and integration into web front ends, ported to mobile smartphones and registered with the physical world. The students will learn basic concepts on 3D documentation, capturing, tracking and reconstruction technologies required for online/offline and mobile virtual museums. The topics to be addressed are: ▪ Virtual Reality on the web (VR Apps) – HTML 5 embedding of interactive 3D graphics, X3DOM, 3D event handling and routing, interaction and advanced visualisation techniques within web browsers, online virtual museums (www.x3dom.org X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879A9370B1; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:46:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E765C370A2; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:46:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120609204605.E765C370A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:46:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.70 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 70. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Fishwick (110) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.68 aesthetic computing [2] From: James Rovira (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.68 aesthetic computing [3] From: Rob Myers (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.68 aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:19:32 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.68 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120607200824.C348F283DEF@woodward.joyent.us> As serendipity would have it, a colleague of mine here at UF (Sophia Acord) alerted me to this list. So I just joined and look forward to learning more about relationships between computing and the humanities. I am just now trying to dig into some of the archives. I also wanted to let readers know that there is a very recent online encyclopedia chapter on aesthetic computing with five critiques, including Sophia's. http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/aesthetic_computing.html All of your criticisms are most welcome on this chapter which admittedly is skewed toward aesthetics as strongly influencing grounded (embodied) cognition. Kelly's encyclopedia (and critique) is more comprehensive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Aesthetics -paul (from the funded coven :) On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 68. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:38:38 -0700 > From: Jascha Kessler > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.67 aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To: <20120606210633.D3B4A28243E@woodward.joyent.us> > > > The only difficulty in this notion is that Æsthetics, as a branch of > philosophy, traditional, is even more vague and ambiguous a realm, and > resistant to [the absolute of] definition that is the Moral branch [pace E. > Kant]. > > How can it be blithely assumed that more than a [funded(?)] coven may have > a useful clue about the matter? > > Jascha Kessler > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 67. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:04:20 +1000 > > From: Willard McCarty > > Subject: aesthetic computing > > > > > > Some here may know of a movement known as aesthetic computing, begun by > > Paul Fishwick and others at the University of Florida, launched at a > > conference in Dagstuhl, Germany, in July 2002, and now discussed in an > > edited volume, Aesthetic Computing (MIT Press, 2006) as well as in > > numerous other places, including Fishwick's site, "The Content is in the > > Machine", http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/aescomputing/. The following > > is quoted from his introduction to the book: > > > > > Aesthetic computing is the application of aesthetics to computing. > > > The goal of aesthetic computing is to affect areas within computing, > > > which for our purposes, will be defined broadly as the area of > > > computer science. With respect to aesthetics, this goal also includes > > > the idea that the application of aesthetics to computing and > > > mathematics, the formal foundations for computing, can extend beyond > > > classic concepts such as symmetry and invariance to encompass the > > > wide range of aesthetic definitions and categories normally > > > associated with making art. > > > > It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with computing in the > > arts that the journal Leonardo and its executive editor Roger Malina are > > deeply involved. > > > > What seems to me especially significant about this movement for the > > digital humanities is the reversal of the usual tendency to think of > > computing as an external impacting force coming down on the disciplines > > of the humanities to which the disciplines then respond. And this is > > much more than formulating interesting problems for computer scientists > > to solve so that people in the arts can get on with their work. This, it > > seems to me, is a partial realisation of the much overlooked fact that, > > as Michael Mahoney used to insist, Turing's gift is a scheme for the > > devising of indefinitely many computings, limited only by the human > > imagination (which of course has no limits). > > > > So what about the other disciplines with which we are concerned? How > > about a *literary* computing in Fishwick's sense? Or, to bring back a > > discarded term, how about a *humanities* computing? > > > > Comments? > > > > Yours, > > WM > > > > -- > > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > > London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, > > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist > > (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ > > > -- > Jascha Kessler > Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA > Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 > www.jfkessler.com > www.xlibris.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:24:33 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.68 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120607200824.C348F283DEF@woodward.joyent.us> I don't think the idea of aesthetic computing is too far out there. While aesthetics broadly defined seems vague and ambiguous, this field of study is capable of generating specific principles for the evaluation of beauty, ugliness, or for helping us understand how an artistic product generates an emotional effect. These principles don't have to be universally held, just coherent within a specific context. However, since code is always going to be a combination of words, numbers, and special characters, I'm not sure that aesthetic computing could ever be distinguished from literary or humanities computing: I think it is the way that literary or humanities computing would be understood. The idea of an aesthetic computing is very interesting to me, but I'm wondering how the scholars working in this field answer some obvious questions: if we're applying aesthetic principles to coding beyond symmetry, simplicity, and invariance, what form would these take and what difference would they make? Why does it matter if coding is pretty beyond these three principles? If it's not about the coding but about the final form of the products of coding, doesn't that return us to the traditional domain of aesthetics -- literary and artistic products, even if they only exist digitally? Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:51:13 +0100 From: Rob Myers Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.68 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120607200824.C348F283DEF@woodward.joyent.us> On 06/07/2012 09:08 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > The only difficulty in this notion is that Æsthetics, as a branch of > philosophy, traditional, is even more vague and ambiguous a realm, and > resistant to [the absolute of] definition that is the Moral branch [pace E. > Kant]. Clearly it needs the rigor of digital methods. :-) - Rob. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 9 20:47:31 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B887337144; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:47:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 29FD637113; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:47:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120609204729.29FD637113@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:47:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.71 disciplinary paranoia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 71. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:47:14 +0200 From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.40 disciplinary paranoia? In-Reply-To: <20120523214914.0EE29282173@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, sorry to take some time. That interdisciplinarity, if taken serious, requires the willingness to give something to the other discipline as well, not only the interest to get something from it, has at an earlier stage been the subject of an article which is as thought provoking as amusing. D.B. Rutmann has written in Historical Methods, 19 (1986) 121-123, a contribution "History and Anthropology: Clio's Dalliances" in which he argues the point of the first para of this mail, describing the relatively little effect a series of interdisciplinary fades of history had on the discipline as the fate of a muse to much focused on its short term satisfaction from a sequence of partners, and to little on what they could gain from her. Kind regards, Manfred Am 23.05.2012 23:49, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 40. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 07:48:00 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: disciplinary paranoia > > Taking a cue from Richard Hofstadter's article "The Paranoid Style in > American Politics", Harper’s Magazine, November 1964, then thinking > about the fearful desire to live in a totally explained world where > everything conspires to make sense, I am wondering about the reactions > we encounter as digital humanists when approaching other disciplines for > more than merely a momentary, delimited fling. When, to continue with > the sexual metaphor, what we're after is not simply an affair but > marriage. What I want to ask is this: how common is it for > representatives of the other discipline to gather into themselves, to > react in a way that suggests an anxiety about the coherence of their own > field and how the digital humanities might threaten that putative > coherence? Some disciplines are more confident than others, but I > suspect that none is so sure of itself that it cannot be provoked into > such anxiety by something which promises to change everything, as for > the humanities the digital humanities does. > > Any sense in this? Comments? > > Yours, > WM -- Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, Universität zu Köln Postadresse: Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D 50923 Köln Besuchsadresse: Kerpener Str. 30, Eingang Weyertal, II. Stock Tel. +49 - 221 - 470 3022, FAX +49 - 221 - 470 7737 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 9 20:48:31 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2083A37190; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:48:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4436E37185; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:48:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120609204825.4436E37185@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:48:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.72 name for a kind of data? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 72. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:31:41 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a name for a kind of data? A question, as follows, from an MA student at King's: > I was wondering if you would know the exact name of data that is > stored of people that is not immediately accessible to them but > stands as a record of their online activities. An example would be > the 1200 pages of personal biodata that Facebook user, Max Schrems > was sent when he requested for all his personal information, before > it was consciously retrieved by Facebook/Max Schrems but just exists > as useless/potentially useful information 'floating' in the > internet. Any ideas? Please reply to wei_jie_mark.tan@kcl.ac.uk as well as to Humanist. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 Jun 9 20:49:28 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E51E3723A; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:49:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3F0E23722D; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:49:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120609204923.3F0E23722D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:49:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.73 crowdsourcing the US National Archives X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 73. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 04:15:28 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: The US National Archives starts using crowdsourcing In-Reply-To: <20120601213052.74DC1282485@woodward.joyent.us> This program would seem to offer ideas for archives and museums everywhere. In these times of declining budgets, providing the tools for the puclic to contribute to collections development would seem essential. NARA shows how it can be done in this interface. http://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 9 20:50:25 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138E837317; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:50:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1DE2D372E7; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:50:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120609205022.1DE2D372E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:50:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.74 ruminations on the codex X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 74. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:41:31 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: New Service for the Codex In-Reply-To: <20111118074353.BC292206520@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, This may bring a wry smile... Bathtubs and computers don't mix and e-books would not catch on. It's a line of defense we hear less and less given the new generation of specialized screen readers for e-books. But there are some uses still left for the paper-bound volumes, especially big fat dictionaries. Witness Roo Borson's poem "Dictionary" collected in Rain; road; an open boat which gives the reader new appreciation for an old technology. In one corner of the room, beneath the open window, lies an unabridged dictionary becalmed on its stand. Pressed between its pages are buttercups, sage blossoms, several summers' lavender and rose petals, even a small moth that fluttered in haphazardly one evening just as the book was being closed. These mementoes have stained the pages brown, becoming light and friable, more insubstantial over time. The book itself is a code, a key, a lock, an implement that stands for an earlier time and other customs, containing only those things that need not exist, but do so nonetheless, carrying them forward as a maple seed is carried forward by the wind. Just what are "only those things that need not exist" remains a mystery that is best meditated upon by turning the pages of a book or by its equivalent — the turn to the search engine to find others who have been captivated by the same lines. Francois Lachance Scolar-at-large _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 9 20:52:45 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD25A37367; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:52:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6E9C537357; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:52:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120609205243.6E9C537357@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:52:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.75 events: history, film & television; Beckett & brain 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. 26, No. 75. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (44) Subject: Fwd: Beckett and Brain Science [2] From: Shawn Day (54) Subject: Conference: Reframing History: Film, Television and the Historians --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 06:42:32 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: Beckett and Brain Science The following does not concern the digital humanities directly, but since some of our most interesting work has been done via analysis of and reasoning about literary text within a computational frame, some of it concerned with neurology and neurophysiology, "Beckett and Brain Science" would seem not entirely unrelated. WM -------- Original Message -------- **Apologies for cross-posting** Beckett and Brain Science One day Symposium Birkbeck, University of London Friday 22 June 2012 This AHRC-funded project brings together literary scholars, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, cognitive neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, and philosophers to explore the ways in which historical and contemporary models of the brain and mind can contribute to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s work. The project also uses Beckett’s texts as case studies to investigate the ways in which aesthetic representations can offer insights into the experience of neurological and psychological disorder, while asking rigorous, philosophically robust, questions about the relationship between mind and body. By encouraging dialogue between scientific researchers, literary scholars, theatre practitioners, and trainee medics, the project hopes to extend our understanding of the relationship between medical science and literature, while also having a positive impact on patient care. Keynote addresses: Prof Catherine Malabou (philosopher, Kingston University) Prof Lois Oppenheim (literary scholar, Montclair University, and Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute) Prof Sophie Scott (cognitive neuroscientist, University College London) Other contributions from: Dr Elizabeth Barry (literary scholar, Warwick University) Dr Matthew Broome (psychiatrist, Warwick University) Dr Peter Fifield, (literary scholar, Oxford University) Jonathan Heron (theatre director, Warwick University) Dr Ulrika Maude (literary scholar, Reading University) Prof Adam Piette (literary scholar, Sheffield University) Dr Laura Salisbury (literary scholar, Birkbeck). This event is free but spaces are limited and booking is essential. To reserve a place please contact Laura Salisbury: l.salisbury@bbk.ac.uk This event is part of the AHRC Science in Culture ‘Beckett and Brain Science’ exploratory project, shared between Birkbeck, Reading University, and Warwick University. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 08:07:16 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Conference: Reframing History: Film, Television and the Historians REFRAMING HISTORY: FILM, TELEVISION AND THE HISTORIANS DAY CONFERENCE, QUEEN’S FILM THEATRE 2 QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST, 22 JUNE 2012 A critical forum to explore how to do ‘public history’as we move into a “decade of anniversaries”. In a divided society like Northern Ireland how will historians, film makers and broadcasters meet the challenge of engaging with our troubled past? Conference Organisers: Professor Des Bell and Dr Fearghal McGarry Register at http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/Events/ In a divided society which has experienced long-term political conflict the ‘memorialization of history’ represents a distinctive challenge for historians, programme-makers and educationalists. Film-makers regularly employ historians to advise on the accuracy of their work, while historians acknowledge the pedagogic value and communicational power of film and television. Indeed the evidence is that the public increasingly get their historical information from broadcast and film sources. But is the historical film a populist form which necessarily involves the ‘dumbing down’ of academic history? On the other hand, can the inclusion of historical film – whether factual or fictive – within the television schedule and on cinema screens extend access to historical understanding to a broader range of people than the specialist texts of academic history? In what ways does the approach of film-makers to the narration of history differ from the orthodox writing of historians? This conference proceeds from the assumption that to maximise the potential of film to facilitate historical understanding we need to forge more effective partnerships between historians, media scholars, film-makers and broadcasters. The conference programme addresses the following: - public commemoration of history and the role of filmed history in post-conflict reconciliation - notions of authority, objectivity and balance in television history in Ireland - the engagement of the documentary film with personal testimony, collective memory and communal myth - the use of archive and found footage in historical documentaries and the differing ways historians and film makers approach this 'data' as both evidential and expressive source PROGRAMME 10.00 - 10.15 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 10.15 - 11.15 PLENARY ADDRESS: PAT LOUGHREY (Warden, Goldsmith College and former Head of Nations and Regions, BBC): Reframing history? Television and the historians 11.30 - 13.00 SESSION 1: A decade of anniversaries? Film-makers, historians and broadcasters commemorate the past Chair: Professor KEITH JEFFERY, Queen’s University Belfast * SUSAN LOVELL, Commissioning Editor, BBC Northern Ireland * MÍCHEÁL Ó MEALLAIGH Commissioning Editor, TG4 * STEVE CARSON, Head of Programming, RTÉ Television * ANGELA GRAHAM, Development Producer, ‘The Story of Wales’, BBC Cymru 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch, Bar QFT 14.00 - 15.30 SESSION 2: Documentary film as witness Chair: Professor FARRELL CORCORAN, Dublin City University and former chair of RTÉ * ROD STONEMAN, Huston Film School, NUI Galway, author of ‘Chavez: the revolution will not be televised’: History and the documentary moment: the politics of the record * CAHAL MCLAUGHLIN, University of Ulster, Director of Prisons Memory Archive: Memory, truth and reconciliation via documentary witness * JORAM TEN BRINK, Westminster University: Cine provocation and the filmic elicitation of unwanted memories in South East Asia 15.30 - 16.00 Tea/coffee 16.00 - 17.15 SESSION 3: Historians, the visual archive and popular memory Chair: DR DANIEL KOWALSKY, Queen’s University Belfast * MICHAEL CHANAN, University of Roehampton: The archival image, between family memory, and public history: the case of THE MAN WHO ELECTRIFIED RUSSIA * CIARA CHAMBERS, University of Ulster: Navigating the moving image archive in Ireland: paths and pitfalls * DES BELL AND FEARGHAL MCGARRY, Director and historical consultant of ‘The Enigma of Frank Ryan’ (2012), Queen’s University Belfast: Saving Major Ryan: Frank Ryan, the historian’s verdict and the filmic challenge 17.45 Reception: Bar QFT THE CONTRIBUTORS (in order of appearance): Pat Loughrey is Warden of Goldsmith College and former Head of Nations and Regions at the BBC. Keith Jeffery holds the Chair of British History at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Ireland and the Great War (1999) and MI6: The history of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909- 1949 (2010). Susan Lovell is Commissioning Editor, BBC Northern Ireland, and responsible for local programming. Mícheál Ó Meallaigh, is Senior Commissioning Editor at Irish language broadcaster, TG4, and has been responsible for the station’s highly acclaimed documentary output including 1916 Seachtar na Cásca, a docu-drama series profiling the seven signatories of the 1916 Easter Rising. Steve Carson is Head of Programming at RTÉ Television. He directed the award-winning documentary ‘Bertie’ (2009). Angela Graham was the Development Producer on ‘The Story of Wales’, BBC Cymru and teaches in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. Farrell Corcoran is Emeritus Professor of Communications at Dublin City University and former Chair of RTÉ. He is the author of RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television (2004). Rod Stoneman is Director of the Huston Film School, NUI Galway. He is author of Chavez: the revolution will not be televised (2008) and director of Nolens Volens [Whether Willing or Unwilling](2006). Daniel Kowalsky is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queens University Belfast and author of Stalin and the Spanish Civil War (2004). Cahal McLaughlin is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Ulster and author of Recording Memories from Political Conflict: A Film-maker’s Journey (2010) and director of Unheard Voices: Stories from the Troubles (2009). Joram ten Brink is Professor of Film at Westminster University. He is author of Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch (2007) and director of The Journey (2006). Michael Chanan is Professor of Media at the University of Roehampton. He is author of The Politics of Documentary (2007) and director of The man who electrified Russia (2009). Ciara Chambers is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Ulster and author of Ireland in the Newsreel (2012). Fearghal McGarry is Senior Lecturer in History, Queen’s University Belfast, and author of Frank Ryan (2010) and Rebels: Voices from the Easter Rising (2011). Desmond Bell, is Professor in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University and the director of The Enigma of Frank Ryan (2012) and of Child of the Dead End (2009). For further details about the conference please contact Desmond Bell (d.l.bell@qub.ac.uk). Registration http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/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 Sun Jun 10 20:19:37 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D03D137CDD; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:19:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CFC6837CC7; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:19:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120610201931.CFC6837CC7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:19:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.76 name for a kind of data X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 76. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ben Miller (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.72 name for a kind of data? [2] From: Maximilian Schich (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.72 name for a kind of data? [3] From: Alan Corre (2) Subject: Vol. 26, No. 72 A kind of data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:18:56 -0400 From: Ben Miller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.72 name for a kind of data? In-Reply-To: <20120609204825.4436E37185@woodward.joyent.us> Hello, If I understand the question correctly, the general category for most of the data types collected by Facebook (and other social media sites) is "transactional data." A recent (2002) invocation of the value of that category of data was by John Poindexter. Yes, that is the same John Poindexter made infamous by his enabling role as National Security Advisor in Regan's Iran-Contra scandal, who later went on to build a data-mining project for DARPA called Total Information Awareness. One could justifiably imagine he learned of the value of this data whilst standing over a shredder in a backroom of the Pentagon. Transactional data is what gets created when an entity performs a system operation. The term emerged from economic literature in the late 1800s, but only infrequently, and didn't become more commonplace until information engineering took off in the 1950s-80s. A purchase with anything from a credit card to bitcoins is a transaction; friending or unfriending a person on Facebook is a transaction. Each of these events requires a similar set of database operations. A colleague of Poindexter's on one branch of the TIA project ("Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery Program") provides a wonderful example of the value of that data here: http://archive.darpa.mil/DARPATech2002/presentations/iao_pdf/speeches/SENATOR.pdf Schrems' delineates 84 specific categories of Facebook data here: http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/fb_cat1.pdf This category of data, I would argue, constitutes something like an on-line biography, but it not itself biodata. It is the very detailed shape of the trail generated by the intersection of agency and system, not the data that describes the agent or the system outside of their interactions. Much of what Schrems' access request generated is not biographic data, but transactional data. I would argue there is not a good umbrella term to describe the extensive variety of data types we generate while we inhabit these virtual communities. Best, Ben -- Ben Miller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English and Communication Co-Director, Second Century Initiative in New and Emerging Media Georgia State University On 6/9/2012 4:48 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:31:41 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: a name for a kind of data? > > A question, as follows, from an MA student at King's: > >> I was wondering if you would know the exact name of data that is >> stored of people that is not immediately accessible to them but >> stands as a record of their online activities. An example would be >> the 1200 pages of personal biodata that Facebook user, Max Schrems >> was sent when he requested for all his personal information, before >> it was consciously retrieved by Facebook/Max Schrems but just exists >> as useless/potentially useful information 'floating' in the >> internet. > Any ideas? Please reply to wei_jie_mark.tan@kcl.ac.uk as well as to > Humanist. > > Yours, > WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:26:10 +0200 From: Maximilian Schich Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.72 name for a kind of data? In-Reply-To: <20120609204825.4436E37185@woodward.joyent.us> This kind of data is actually not as new as the public attention to it: I guess the most accurate name is User Activity Data: cf. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/07/businessintelligence.aspx or http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/04/28/facebook-opens-user-activity-stream-to-developers/ A related concept is User Clickstream Data: cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickstream or http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004803 Another important concept in this circumstance is Reality Mining: For a brilliant and concise introduction see Sandy Pentland's book on Honest Signals: cf. http://www.amazon.com/Honest-Signals-Shape-World-Bradford/dp/0262162563 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1iKKAA2FOw Best, Max Register now: http://artshumanities.netsci2012.net -- Dr. Maximilian Schich SOMS, ETH Zurich http://www.soms.ethz.ch http://www.schich.info --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:41:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: Vol. 26, No. 72 A kind of data In-Reply-To: <20120609204825.4436E37185@woodward.joyent.us> How about "cyberdebris"? Alan Corré _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 10 20:24:42 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C9B37DEE; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:24:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A6E3837DDD; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:24:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120610202437.A6E3837DDD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:24:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.77 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 77. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Allington (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.70 aesthetic computing [2] From: Paul Fishwick (76) Subject: Re: aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:37:01 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.70 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120609204605.E765C370A2@woodward.joyent.us> > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:24:33 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.68 aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To: <20120607200824.C348F283DEF@woodward.joyent.us> > If it's not about the coding but about the final > form of the products of coding, doesn't that return us to the traditional > domain of aesthetics -- literary and artistic products, even if they only > exist digitally? > > Jim R > I think that's a fairly fundamental question, in that it highlights the importance of the audience. The audience that consists of non-programmers must indeed return to questions about the product; however, the audience that consists of programmers evidently finds the aesthetics of code itself to be enormously important. It seems to me that one drawback of the 'digital humanities' (as opposed, perhaps, to 'humanities computing') is that it perpetuates this situation by tending to treat programmers precisely as they are treated in industry: that is, as clever solution-providers who construct a valued final product through arcane means that nobody else is really expected to understand. I don't know enough about aesthetic computing as a movement to be able to speculate as to whether it will challenge this state of affairs. Daniel -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:23:33 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120609204605.E765C370A2@woodward.joyent.us> Jim R makes good points, and this leads to some additional questions about the humanities and aesthetics: .........Jim R............ I don't think the idea of aesthetic computing is too far out there. While aesthetics broadly defined seems vague and ambiguous, this field of study is capable of generating specific principles for the evaluation of beauty, ugliness, or for helping us understand how an artistic product generates an emotional effect. These principles don't have to be universally held, just coherent within a specific context. However, since code is always going to be a combination of words, numbers, and special characters, I'm not sure that aesthetic computing could ever be distinguished from literary or humanities computing: I think it is the way that literary or humanities computing would be understood. ..........Paul F........... Code is not always going to be such a combination. If you look at the encyclopedia chapter, you will see "code" that is represented as analog machinery. We also have visual languages such as PureData, MAX/MSP which do not use writing at least at the higher levels of abstraction. Does "humanities computing" imply writing? Or can it suggest non-written products? And if it does imply writing, is there is a reason why writing and building are made separate? I realize that they are typically in the academy, but if we are to cross disciplines, perhaps we should cross more seamlessly between writing and non-writing. This thought may be reflected by the "build vs. write" debate that occupies some of the digital humanities books. ..........Jim R.............. The idea of an aesthetic computing is very interesting to me, but I'm wondering how the scholars working in this field answer some obvious questions: [I have inserted numbers to make an enumerated list -pf] if we're applying aesthetic principles to coding beyond symmetry, simplicity, and invariance, [1] what form would these take and what difference would they make? [2] Why does it matter if coding is pretty beyond these three principles? [3] If it's not about the coding but about the final form of the products of coding, doesn't that return us to the traditional domain of aesthetics -- literary and artistic products, even if they only exist digitally? ............Paul F............... These are really good questions. Some answers (and questions) here: [1] There is a reasonable body of knowledge to suggest that sense of presence (as one measurable quantity) improves memory (as compared with non-immersive products such as those that are based on writing). However, the relative benefits among media are not well understood. What is the difference between watching Harry Potter on video, playing the Harry Potter game, playing with action figures, watching a play based on Harry Potter, looking at photos, etc. All media have different effects. Some of the research in embodied cognition, suggests that when we "read", we are performing simulation. Perhaps, this is a bridge connecting writing and building? [2] What does it matter if we read Hamlet or watch the play? I believe the assumption in your question seems to be that anything that is not written is superfluous (i.e. the use of "pretty" as a pejorative phrase)? Also the principles you mention are a small subset of aesthetics. One of the points in aesthetic computing is that we need to move beyond characterizing code, program, data (etc) in terms of a small subset of aesthetics (symmetry, invariance,....). Why should code be any different than communication in the arts and humanities which have resulted in a great variety of media products and forms? One possible observation is that writing is common in coding and programming purely for economic reasons: it's cheap. As we progress to newer, cheaper interfaces, the issues of economy will change--it will be just as easy to snap your fingers and create real or virtual objects. We are not there yet, but all of our technologies are moving us in that direction---to where this sort of building will become as cheap as writing. [3] I am not sure there is a difference between the act of coding and the final form. The fellow who built an ALU in Minecraft was coding in Minecraft - no writing required. Jim: I may not have understood some of your points, so please bear with me and clarify where possible so we can continue the dialogue. ....................... Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 11 20:17:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C400614A969; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:17:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0CDB714A95A; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:17:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120611201713.0CDB714A95A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:17:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.78 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 78. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (119) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.77 aesthetic computing [2] From: "David L. Hoover" (201) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.70 aesthetic computing [3] From: "Acord, Sophia Krzys" (13) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 26.77 aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:26:54 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.77 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120610202437.A6E3837DDD@woodward.joyent.us> Many thanks to Daniel Allington and Paul Fishwick for their responses to my post, which I feel were well-considered and understood my intent to the extent that I expressed it clearly. I'm wondering if it would help advance discussion if we spoke concretely about a specific example? Keep it simple to illuminate fundamental issues and then observe from there instances that complicate those fundamentals? Some of this has already begun. In my previous post, I had in mind something like an .html model. There is the code (.html), and there is the visible product of that code (the specific webpage viewed in a browser). The purpose of the code is 1) to produce the visible product and 2) register information about that product. I think this model works about the same with any web technology and with documents and video games and images. The audience for the code itself is limited to programmers, but the audience for the visible product of that code is both programmers and everyone else: all other users. All other users include people who play video games and view webpages and write Word documents who, for all practical purposes, may as well believe in magic as understand how all that is produced. Now, isn't code always subordinate to some kind usable product? Haven't we users usually thought that it doesn't matter how you get there, just that the end product is stable, functional, and has some aesthetic appeal? Doesn't that mean that in this economy programmers always are clever people who produce usable end products by arcane means? Blacksmiths and tanners and all other tradesmen, for that matter, have always been so. Programmers care -how- we get to that end product too -- how efficiently, effectively, even elegantly, etc., but none of that matters except within the context of an end product that works. We don't appreciate code that doesn't work. That's like building a very beautiful car without an engine. There's not much point. Imagine a millionaire with ten such cars in his garage? Wouldn't we think he was crazy or stupid or very funny? I would think that "aesthetic programming," if it's to be a field truly distinct from the rest of aesthetics (in other words, a real subset of aesthetics), would deal primarily with how code is written, not the end products of code (like a webpage). I would think that simplicity (finding three step solutions rather than ten step), servicability (easy to fix when things go wrong), and readability (easy to view and understand) would be very important. These all have some aesthetic value but I think they're still very much dependent upon use value as well. Now, to return to Paul's responses -- they seem to me to be leading us to the point where we can separate use value from aesthetic value in programming, and truly, that's the way aesthetic value has often been understood. What makes a light switch a light switch is pure use value. What separates a beautiful from a plain from an ugly light switch has nothing to do with the functioning of the light switch. That's pure aesthetic value. We might come up with a ten-step light switch, and that might conceivably be part of some kind of artistic exhibit, but I think most people would think it was either a real pain in the arse or very funny -- because they were thinking in terms of use value, and no one but Willy Wonka would actually want one in their house. My sticking point with this issue is that use value always has to be part of aesthetic value when considering programming. Use value is the starting point. It doesn't even count as programming unless it does something. -How- it does it make be part of our aesthetic judgment about it, but it has to do something, like a car has to be able to be driven down the road. Paul's next two paragraphs nicely complicate the issue and I have no response to them until I've educated myself more in this area -- Code is not always going to be such a combination. If you look at the > encyclopedia chapter, you will see "code" that is represented as > analog machinery. We also have visual languages such as PureData, > MAX/MSP which do not use writing at least at the higher levels of > abstraction. > > Does "humanities computing" imply writing? Or can it suggest non-written > products? And if it does imply writing, is there is a reason why writing > and > building are made separate? I realize that they are typically in the > academy, but if we are to cross disciplines, perhaps we should > cross more seamlessly between writing and non-writing. This thought > may be reflected by the "build vs. write" debate that occupies some of > the digital humanities books. > I would only ask that in terms of the coding/product split that I describe above, how common is this? Isn't it somewhat rare compared to the number of webpages out there and the numbers of their viewers? Or users of Word documents or Diablo III? I feel that I am on more familiar ground with his following responses, though. Under response [1] I think all different interactions with all forms are equally and divergently meaningful. Reading Harry Potter the book, seeing HP the film or playing HP the game do not replace one another. I would extend this response to [2]: reading and viewing the play Hamlet are two completely different experiences of two completely different media. I don't mean to say that anything that is not written is superfluous, though I can see how I may have come across that way. Just, a play is written, just like code is written and games are written and films are written. Even impromptu work such as the comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? follows variations on comedic formulae. Half of the fun is seeing them follow genre conventions to get started then vary them -- but without these conventions (which are already written and have been for centuries in some cases, decades in others) there's no impromptu comedy. Now this response perhaps takes us to the future of this discussion: <> The beginning of an answer returns us to the fact of a code/product split. Because the other media products are identically product and code. The same brushstrokes that constitute the product of a painting also constitute the code in which it is written. As in all codes, not everyone can decode a painting, but the code is equally visible to all viewers. If we're viewing a webpage or playing a videogame or reading a Word document, though, the code is never visible. It's beneath the product. We can view the product in most cases without ever viewing the code, and no one needs to see the code to see or use the product. In fact, in these cases, we can see the code OR see the product, but we can never see both at once. In the case of a painting, we always see both code and product. I think a programmer's dream is something like the closing scenes of The Matrix, in which Neo viewed his entire world as streaming code constituting the objects that he once viewed as material and solid and "real" in a physical sense. Viewing code and product simultaneously gave him godlike powers -- the ability to write as he interacted and manipulate his environment. But programmers don't even view webpages that way, although good ones could probably look at a page and write at least a good bit of the code for it. I think to get there we'd all have to be programmers and speak to one another in code: code would have to be our actual language. Then we could begin to discuss aesthetic value apart from use value. When I think of aesthetic vs. use value I'm using Kant's Critique of Pure Judgment as a starting point. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:59:10 -0400 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.70 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120609204605.E765C370A2@woodward.joyent.us> There is another kind of aesthetic computing that I don't think has been mentioned. My colleague Gabrielle Starr has a forthcoming book in which she writes about her experiments with looking at brain scans of people taken during aesthetic experiences. Information about her course is available here: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~vessel/courses/NeuralAesthetics/ more information here: http://neuroaesthetics.net/papers/visual-arts/ David --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:54:09 +0000 From: "Acord, Sophia Krzys" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 26.77 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120610202437.A6E3837DDD@woodward.joyent.us> I second Paul in thanking the humanist@ community for sharing your thoughts and reactions to Aesthetic Computing from a humanities computing perspective. We began talking about Aesthetic Computing with our Digital Humanities Working Group here at the University of Florida only this past spring, so the conversation is new for us as well. (I should situate myself briefly as a sociologist who is interested in how different academic disciplines use new technologies.) One of the biggest criticisms that I hear about computing from humanities scholars is that formal computing languages risk being reductive, rather than productive, when creating computing environments for humanities work (which may require ambiguity, nuance, or multiple interpretations/meanings). In its emphasis on creating visual mechanisms to engage in embodied ways with computing structures (code, etc.), we wonder if aesthetic computing could provide a terrain or platform where humanities scholars and computer scientists can come together (regardless of familiarity with formal languages) and collaboratively 'tinker with' computing structures to create digital humanities projects. Your thoughts on anything above (or anything else) are quite welcome. We're particularly interested in the 'ambiguity' idea right now. Can we build computing structures for ambiguity? Best wishes, Sophia ----- Sophia Krzys Acord, Ph.D. Associate Director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law University of Florida _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:18:42 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E0914A9B6; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:18:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6137014A99F; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:18:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120611201840.6137014A99F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:18:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.79 name for a kind of data X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 79. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Maximilian Schich (133) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.76 name for a kind of data [2] From: Erik Hanson (158) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.76 name for a kind of data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:19:53 +0200 From: Maximilian Schich Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.76 name for a kind of data In-Reply-To: <20120610201931.CFC6837CC7@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Ben, and all, From a technological perspective, Facebook stores most information as "graph data", which is indeed pretty universal in scope - Linked Open Data would be another example of graph data. See for e.g. the introduction of Facebook's Chief of Engineering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCHiNEw73AU Modern "graph data" add on to classic "transaction data" in a number of significant ways. I also disagree a little with the political connotation: Just like bones, space stations, and kitchen knives, graph and transaction data are powerful tools, which can be used for good and bad. Best, Max Register now: http://artshumanities.netsci2012.net -- Dr. Maximilian Schich SOMS, ETH Zurich http://www.soms.ethz.ch http://www.schich.info --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:59:04 -0500 From: Erik Hanson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.76 name for a kind of data In-Reply-To: <20120610201931.CFC6837CC7@woodward.joyent.us> Informally, I've heard it referred to as one's "digital wake," probably derived from the image of "surfing the web." Erik A. Hanson Content Strategist Loyola Chicago DH Program _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:19:28 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2895914AA05; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:19:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A195A14A9F9; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:19:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120611201926.A195A14A9F9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:19:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.80 PhD studentships at Amsterdam X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 80. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:34:36 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: Two fully funded PhD candidates in Digital Humanities at Univ. ofAmsterdam Two fully funded PhD candidates in Digital Humanities To strengthen the research field of Digital Humanities, the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for Two fully funded PhD candidates in Digital Humanities, starting on 1st September 2012 Tasks • Complete and defend a PhD thesis within the official appointment duration (see text below). • Regularly present intermediate research results at international workshops and conferences, and publish them in proceedings and journals • Collaborate with the researchers in other relevant parts of the research institutes of the Faculty of Humanities • Participate in the organization of research activities and events within the research field of Digital Humanities, such as conferences, workshops and joint publications Requirements • A Master's degree with excellent grades in a relevant field • Good academic writing and presentation skills • Good social and organizational skills Appointment The PhD candidate at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam will be appointed for 4 years for 0,8 fte under the terms of employment currently valid for the Faculty. In the first instance, a contract will be given for 16 months, with an extension for the following 32 months on the basis of a positive evaluation The salary for the position (on a full-time basis) will be € 2042 during the first year (gross per month) and will reach € 2612 during the fourth year. Application Applications for the PhD position should include a letter of motivation, a CV, a list of grades obtained for your Bachelor and Master (or equivalent) programmes, as well as names and contact details of two academic referees. Please supply each document separately in .pdf format, giving the files self-explanatory names (e.g. CV NAME.pdf). Please also include a writing sample (such as your MSc thesis or a term paper), preferably a link to an online version. The letter of motivation (maximally 2000 words, but preferably shorter) should outline what kind of research you wish to undertake. You are welcome to contact professor Rens Bod (rens.bod@uva.nl), co-ordinator of Digital Humanities, to discuss your plans ahead of applying formally. Completed applications should be submitted by 4 July 2012, 23.59 hrs. The address for applications is solliciteren2012-fgw@uva.nl. Please state the vacancy number in the subject field (this number will be available later this week at www.uva.nl/vacatures ). Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted. Further information Research at the Faculty of Humanities: www.hum.uva.nl/onderzoek Working at the University of Amsterdam: http://www.english.uva.nl/vacancies _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:20:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9985A14AA8A; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:20:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5E4F814AA74; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:20:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120611202027.5E4F814AA74@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:20:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.81 publication: Digital Curation Bibliography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 81. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:21:07 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship ofScholarly Works Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works: http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcb.htm In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important. This selective bibliography presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. It covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works, such as e-prints and open access articles. The bibliography is available as a paperback and an open access PDF file. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. For a list of all Digital Scholarship publications, see: http://bit.ly/ffWu9D Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/dcb_en.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 11 20:22:14 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF1E914AB14; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:22:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DF4914AB02; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:22:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120611202212.0DF4914AB02@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:22:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.82 Call for nominations: 2014 Zampolli Prize X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 82. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:30:36 +0200 From: Karina van Dalen Subject: announcement from Awards Committee for Humanist list Call for nominations for the 2014 Zampolli Prize The Zampolli Prize is a awarded every three years by The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) in recognition of an outstanding singular achievement in the Digital Humanities. The Prize is named in honor of Antonio Zampolli, one of the founders of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and its president when he tragically died in 2003. The first award was given to Chad Gaffield in 2011. The next Zampolli Prize will be given at the DH conference in 2014. The Award Committee, made up of members of the constituent organizations of ADHO, now invites nominations. These may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of any of the ADHO constituent organizations. The nomination should consist of the following information: a description of the nominee's work and the reasons why this work is considered to be an outstanding contribution to the field of Digital Humanities. 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 will receive 1000 GBP and is expected to give a keynote or plenary lecture (on a topic of their choice) at the 2014 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 is given - this means that all travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of the Prize recipient will be paid by the Alliance. Nominations should be emailed to Karina van Dalen-Oskam (karina.van.dalen (at) Huygens.knaw.nl) no later than October 1st, 2012. The winner of the Award will be announced at the 2013 meeting and awarded at the 2014 meeting. More information about the award can be found on the ADHO web site: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/awards/ZampolliPrize The ADHO Awards Committee, Karina van Dalen-Oskam (chair) Matt Jockers Jon Saklofske Øyvind Eide Prof. Dr Karina van Dalen-Oskam Research leader Department of Textual Scholarship and Literary Studies Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor of Computational Literary Studies University of Amsterdam www.huygens.knaw.nl, www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vandalen/ Tel: +31 – 70 – 3315875 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:25:44 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C568614ABDD; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:25:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 48EF714ABCD; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:25:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120611202542.48EF714ABCD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:25:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.83 events: art; digital humanities; cybernetics; films in VR X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 83. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Barrett (17) Subject: Putting Machinima in (or out of) Cinema: A Roundtable on Films Madein Virtual Worlds [2] From: Koen Vermeir (19) Subject: Cybernetics in its contexts, 12 juin, 14h-18h [3] From: Michael Pidd (23) Subject: Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Registration [4] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (27) Subject: CHArt Call for Proposals - final extension Wednesday June 20th --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:28:14 +0200 From: James Barrett Subject: Putting Machinima in (or out of) Cinema: A Roundtable on Films Madein Virtual Worlds Dear Colleagues, Just to let anyone who is in the area know, there will be a round table symposium on machinima as cinema today (Monday June 11) between 17:15 - 19:00 (GMT) at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge UK CB3 9DT. Jenna Ng ((Facilitator), Newton Trust/Leverhulme Early Career, CRASSH) University of Cambridge) William Brown (Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton, London) Sarah Higley (Professor of English at the University of Rochester, NY) 'I am excited by [machinima] essentially because it can be personalised - it should perhaps become like letter writing used to be - one to one in abundance - where everyone had his or her own handwriting. Don't put it in the cinema - you will kill it.' - Peter Greenaway Machinima - films created in game or virtual worlds - converges cinema, animation, video games, television, puppetry, performance, music video and social virtual worlds, among others. No other media form in history pulls off such a smorgasbord of media in its makeup, or so defies placement in the mediascape. The challenge is to locate machinima's hybridity, preferably (as Greenaway implores) without killing it, in the process re-visiting our definitions and conceptions of cinema and, indeed, the future of the moving image. Beginning with a short reel of a few machinima films, this roundtable seminar features three speakers who will discuss machinima as an emerging media form. Does machinima provide a new visual regime for the digital moving image? Or might it provide new answers to what cinema is - or will be - in its slippery dialectic between the real and the virtual? Open to all. No registration required Part of the Cambridge Screen Media Group series. More links: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2003/ Regards Jim James Barrett PhD Candidate/Adjunct Department of Language Studies/HUMlab Umeå University Sweden --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:34:38 +0200 From: Koen Vermeir Subject: Cybernetics in its contexts, 12 juin, 14h-18h In-Reply-To: <4FD4A93A.5090908@yahoo.fr> *workshop series: Machines et Imagination* organized by P. Cassou-Noguès (Paris 8, LLCP, SPHERE), V. Tkaczyk(Amsterdam/Berlin), K. Vermeir (CNRS, SPHERE) http://www.rehseis.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article959&lang=fr *workshop: « Cybernetics in its contexts »* Tuesday 12 juin, 14h-18h - Jérôme Segal: "De la ménagerie artificielle à l'homme augmenté - machines cybernétiques et mort du sujet". - Ronan Le Roux: "How the meaning of Cybernetics is constructed through its circulation between different fields." - Bernhard Dotzler: "The Prophet's Sun, or 'How did it al begin?' (F. Jacob)" Location: salle Klein, 612B, bâtiment Condorcet, Université Paris Diderot - site Rive Gauche, 4, rue Elsa Morante, 75013, Paris. -- Koen Vermeir Senior Research Fellow, CNRS Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219), 5 rue Thomas Mann - Case 7093, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:52:49 +0100 From: Michael Pidd Subject: Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Registration In-Reply-To: <4FD4A93A.5090908@yahoo.fr> Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. I'm pleased to announce that discounted registration is now available until 30th June for the Digital Humanities Congress which will take place in Sheffield during September 2012: http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012 I would be grateful if you could circulate this link to other interested colleagues. With best wishes Mike -- Michael Pidd HRI Digital Manager Humanities Research Institute University of Sheffield 34 Gell Street Sheffield S3 7QY Tel: 0114 222 6113 Fax: 0114 222 9894 Email: m.pidd@sheffield.ac.uk Web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri Times Higher Education University of the Year --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:26:21 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: CHArt Call for Proposals - final extension Wednesday June 20th In-Reply-To: COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART www.chart.ac.uk CHArt 28TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Display: Consume: Respond - Digital Engagement with Art Thursday 15 - Friday 16 November 2012, Central London venue TBC Please note *** Following requests for extension the final deadline for abstracts is now Wednesday June 20th*** Since its foundation in 1985 CHArt has engaged in topical issues in Digital Art History. This year CHArt is looking at how new developments in information and communications technology affect the ways in which we engage with art. New forms of digital display or emerging modes of viewing art may have profound effects on both our understanding of the artwork itself (the way we consume it) and our ability or appetite for describing, curating and managing it (how we respond to it). CHArt invites papers that examine emerging practice and where it impacts upon digital art practice, research and curation. Areas for consideration include: * Control of authorship, ownership and access * Collaboration and the interdisciplinary break-down * Participation, quick response and interaction * Consumption, re-use and mashup * Mobile technology, apps and education * Connections between art, interface design, usability and user experience * Globalisation, agility, dissemination and big data * Liquidity and permeability of digital culture Contributions are welcome from all sections of the CHArt community: art historians, artists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, philosophers, curators, conservators, scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists and educationalists. 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 Wednesday, June 20th 2012. Please note that submissions exceeding the stated word count will not be considered. Postgraduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal. CHArt is able to offer assistance with the conference fees for up to four 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. CHArt c/o Department of Digital Humanities Kings College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL chart@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 Wed Jun 13 20:44:32 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FF0281A7B; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:44:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C440281A70; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:44:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120613204427.2C440281A70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:44:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.84 name for a kind of data X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 84. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:15:32 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.76 name for a kind of data In-Reply-To: <20120610201931.CFC6837CC7@woodward.joyent.us> I sort of like "digital footprint", though I agree that the more businesslike, "Activity Data" or "Clickstream Data" is what I'd imagine someone in the business of collecting such data would call it. I just like the idea of this vast plain of digital space with footprints where someone treads being left behind as they move along. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 13 20:46:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1272F281B38; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:46:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C850B281B27; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:46:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120613204603.C850B281B27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:46:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 85. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (66) Subject: reductive coding and ambiguity [2] From: Daniel Allington (26) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.78 aesthetic computing [3] From: Daniel Allington (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.77 aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:07:41 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: reductive coding and ambiguity In Humanist 26.78 Sophia Acord notes that, > One of the biggest criticisms that I hear about computing from > humanities scholars is that formal computing languages risk being > reductive, rather than productive, when creating computing > environments for humanities work (which may require ambiguity, nuance, > or multiple interpretations/meanings). This is, as many here will know, a very old criticism. Any exact specification of what to compute and the process of computing it is reductive. One response to this that I've flogged is to point out that what matters is the failure of the computational model exactly to capture what the scholar somehow knows, and in the comparison of the model's performance, perfectively iterated, to the scholar's perceptions lies the real gold. But there is a big problem here: the assumption that the scholar's perceptions have not already been affected by computational thinking. In his essay, "The Structures of Computation and the Mathematical Structure of Nature" (Histories of Computing, Harvard 2011), Michael Mahoney writes about computing in the natural sciences, specifically biology, that, > Here the artifact as formal (mathematical) system has become deeply > embedded in the natural world, and it is not clear how one would go > about re-establishing traditional epistemological boundaries among > the elements of our understanding. (p. 179) I don't see how this cannot be true of the artifactual world of human culture as well. Again the assumption of unaffected scholarly perceptions assumes a version of the impact theory of relations between computing technologies and humanistic scholarship. It fails to take into account not just what we call influence but more interestingly the possibility of "deep calling unto deep" -- that computing as we know it is one manifestation of something that also is manifested in our rush to compute. And in any case the generation of scholars (is it now plural?) that has grown up with hands on keyboards and mice can hardly claim computational virginity. I recommend to everyone's attention the 5-part series, "The machine that changed the world" (WGBH Boston/BBC), and with respect to the question above, esp part 3. As Mahoney argues in several of his essays, in the early history of computers there was little to no demand for the machines apart from the scientists and military people who created the things. The desire for them had to be awakened by advertising. In the US the turning point was the US presidential election of 1952, when the Univac predicted the outcome long before anyone could see that Eisenhower would win. But once the desire was awakened, and esp once it became possible to own one's own machine, from the late 1970s, the rush to possess a computer was enormous. Part 3 of "The machine that changed the world" (note the impact-theoretical title) makes it quite clear that the millions who bought the things mostly didn't know why they were doing so. Now that, I think, tells us something quite important. But it also makes the question of our ability to think otherwise a very difficult and interesting one. This ties in with Lorraine Daston's and Peter Galison's work on the historical phenomenon of objectivity as a coherent way of thinking about the natural world: the same kind of thing happened with photography. A paranoid reaction is one possibility (cf "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", 1956); so is the not entirely unsentimental lament over the loss of ambiguity, or its mirror image, the erotics of the precise. But what seems quite clear to me is the burning need for critical enquiries into how we are changing ourselves, and how to do this well. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 Jun 2012 00:34:44 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.78 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120611201713.0CDB714A95A@woodward.joyent.us> > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:26:54 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.77 aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To: <20120610202437.A6E3837DDD@woodward.joyent.us> > > ... > > The audience for the code itself is limited to programmers, but the > audience for the visible product of that code is both programmers and > everyone else: all other users. All other users include people who play > video games and view webpages and write Word documents who, for all > practical purposes, may as well believe in magic as understand how all that > is produced. > > Now, isn't code always subordinate to some kind usable product? ... > Doesn't that mean that in this economy programmers always are clever > people who produce usable end products by arcane means? > Thanks for your thoughtful response, James. However, I think there are real problems in humanists like you and I trying to discuss the aesthetics of computing in an environment still defined by a divide between 'two cultures'. >From the point of view of the programmer, the usability of the end product by the non-programmer is only one consideration. Another consideration - which, depending upon the task, may be no less important - is the maintainability of the code by other programmers. That is one of the most obvious contexts in which aesthetic issues arise for the programmer, and it illustrates the dangers of trying to reason about the aesthetics of computing from the viewpoint of the end-user. Unfortunately, however, a humanist research paradigm appears to have arisen in which the programmer's exclusive sphere is the solving of practical problems, and, like the end-user who marvels at the finished product, the visionary scholar-fundraiser who manages the programmer 'may as well believe in magic'. What I was driving at in my previous email is that the work the programmer does is arcane only insofar as the non-programmer's ignorance - or lack of curiosity - allows it to seem so. All well and good, one might say - we can't all be programmers, after all! - but acceptance of that state of affairs might be argued to disqualify the non-programmer from holding an opinion with regard to the aesthetic aspects of the programmer's craft. Or do I mean art? Best wishes Daniel -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:39:24 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.77 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120610202437.A6E3837DDD@woodward.joyent.us> Paul Your post certainly gave me food for thought. On the other hand, it seems to me that a new branch of aesthetics might best concern itself primarily with understanding the ways that aesthetic judgements tend to be made in the real world, which in this case would mean engaging with code as something that is written - and for that reason, I would question the significance of visual programming. Many programmers and computer scientists currently argue that a high level of abstraction is desirable in programming, but the abstractions they are generally talking about are logical and mathematical, and logical and mathematical abstractions are generally given visual representation through the medium of writing. There may be no intrinsic reason to favour writing over some other systems of visual representation, eg. flowcharts, but right now I can see no sign that either the mainstream of application development or the cutting edge of computer science are moving in such a direction. (I believe that representing algorithms as analogue mechanisms only works for certain kinds of algorithms - I don't think that recursion can be represented in such a way, for example - so I'm not sure this can be seen as a viable alternative except for pedagogical purposes.) On the other hand, you're absolutely right to point out PureData and Max/MSP as successful examples of favouring flowchart-like visuals over text in programming. I think it's important to emphasise, however, that these systems are a special case where the aim has been to facilitate a very specific kind of high level programming, ie. the chaining together of audio or visual processing modules, for a traditionally code-phobic community, ie. music/audio/video professionals. Visual programming of this sort is not widely used for application development, including by members of the music community: for example, the wonderful open source music engraver, LilyPond implements a LaTeX-like markup language rather than a GUI, uses Scheme as its scripting language, and is mostly written in C++. In other words, it has to be worth looking at why visual programming works in certain specific cases, but it also has to be worth looking at why it doesn't seem to work in general - and it seems to me that the overall focus of research could most usefully be directed at the form of programming that is generally preferred for most programming tasks, at the (aesthetic) reasons for its being preferred, and at the aesthetic principles that have developed around it. So while I think it's very important to retain an open mind about what 'programming' is, and to consider the aesthetic reasons why non-written forms of programming may be more appropriate for specific users and specific purposes, the signs are that these will remain fringe phenomena for the foreseeable future. Even if they don't, Jim's point certainly stands with regard to virtually the entire history of computer programming since the demise of punch cards etc as an input mechanism. Best Daniel On 10 Jun 2012, at 21:24, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 77. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Daniel Allington (16) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.70 aesthetic computing > > [2] From: Paul Fishwick (76) > Subject: Re: aesthetic computing > > > > Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 20:23:33 -0400 > From: Paul Fishwick > Subject: Re: aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To: <20120609204605.E765C370A2@woodward.joyent.us> > > .........Jim R.........… > ... > > However, since code is always going to be a combination of words, numbers, > and special characters, I'm not sure that aesthetic computing could ever be > distinguished from literary or humanities computing: I think it is the way > that literary or humanities computing would be understood. > > ..........Paul F........... > > Code is not always going to be such a combination. If you look at the > encyclopedia chapter, you will see "code" that is represented as > analog machinery. We also have visual languages such as PureData, > MAX/MSP which do not use writing at least at the higher levels of > abstraction. -- 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 13 20:48:05 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B737281BEF; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:48:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92845281BD3; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:48:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120613204802.92845281BD3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:48:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.86 data mining? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 86. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:06:22 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: data mining? In a forthcoming article in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, the author says that, > By data mining, I mean the activity of fitting a wide variety of > models to the data in the opportunistic hope of finding one that fits > well. How does this definition accord with general usage? Some time ago someone (perhaps someone here) made the distinction between two kinds of digging: (1) for diamonds and the like, i.e. very careful search for precious objects, with the objective of extracting them intact, and (2) for iron & similar, i.e. excavating huge quantities of raw ore and dirt, then later extracting the desired substance by means of mechanical, chemical or thermal processes. The above definition looks like a rather different sense, and one for which the metaphor of mining doesn't work so well. I expect that like many terms we use, usage is quite loose. I suspect that "data mining" often means no more than searching for stuff, but that it sounds robust, industrial, gritty -- and so real, honest, worthy of funding etc. Like "knowledge engineering". Instead of a beanie with a propeller on top a hard-hat encrusted with processor chips? But if this forthcoming article has nailed an important meaning of the term, then it would be good to have some description of how such mining is done. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 13 20:52:48 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98B6281CE8; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:52:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E6211281CD4; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:52:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120613205244.E6211281CD4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:52:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.87 events: training opportunities; eHumanities; memory; objects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 87. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Koen Vermeir (63) Subject: Call for paper (modified): The digital subject: memory, hypermnesia [2] From: Marco BÜCHLER (15) Subject: Final Call for Abstracts - The 2012 Leipzig eHumanities Seminar [3] From: Klaus Staubermann (30) Subject: ARTEFACTS 2012 - registration now open [4] From: Ray Siemens (19) Subject: Emerging DH Training Network, Institutes (DHSI, DHWI, DH@Oxford,DH@Leipzig) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:47:21 +0200 From: Koen Vermeir Subject: Call for paper (modified): The digital subject: memory, hypermnesia Call for paper (modified) International symposium: “The digital subject: memory, hypermnesia” University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, November 13-15, 2012 CONTACT:hypermnesia@univ-paris8.fr Organizers : Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Department of philosophy, LLCP, SPHERE, EA 4008) Claire Larsonneur (Department of anglophone studies, Le Texte Étranger, EA1569) Arnaud Regnauld (Department of anglophone studies, CRLC – Research Center on Literature and Cognition, EA1569) Plenary lectures: B. Croisile (Lyon), K. Hayles (Duke Univ.), L. H. Liu (Columbia), S. Rettberg (Bergen), J.-M. Salanskis (Paris 10) and B. Stiegler (Paris-Beaubourg) Today’s digital technologies of inscription and preservation have enabled the creation of substantial electronic archives and complex databases while ushering in new ways of archiving knowledge exemplified by collaborative encyclopedias. Such technical developments have foreshadowed a radical reconfiguration of human relations to the world and knowledge at large, and delineate a probable mutation in our understanding of the human subject. Hypermnesia, a recurrent motif in science fiction narratives, was already prefigured in H. G. Wells’ (World Brain, 1937) or Borges’ works (“Funes el memorioso,” 1944). From then on, the notion has migrated into other literary genres, be they published in traditional print or in a digital medium. Similarly, the possible externalization and extension of memory is one of the cornerstones of contemporary philosophical theories (such as that of the “extended mind”) on both sides of the border separating the analytical and continental schools of philosophy. Right after the Second World War, machine memory, the thematization of subjective memory in reference to computer memory, the potential alteration of the very nature of human memory due to the development of machines were recurrent issues in discussions pertaining to cybernetics and they are still vivid in the contemporary diagnosis of posthumanism. Of particular interest is the scope and typology of works featuring the theme of hypermnesia, from fantasies of omnipotence to rewritings of the Babel myth, to political, cultural and economic policy blueprints. This call for papers invites contributions from various fields and disciplines (the history of science and technology, literature, philosophy among others) which question the theme of hypermnesia and memory through the prism of the ambiguous relationship between man and machine, in a historical as well as in a more contemporary perspective. At the crossroads of philosophy, literature and the history of science and technology, this symposium is part of a broader long-term project focusing on the digital subject, a subject whose status and attributes appear to have been altered by the real or fictional development of digital calculating machines from Babbage to Internet. The working languages will be French and English. An abstract (less than 1000 words) and short CV should be submitted before july 1st tohypermnesia@univ-paris8.fr We will study the proposals during the summer and answer before 15th september. This symposium hasreceived the support of the LABEX Arts-H2H scientific committee. Comité scientifique / Scientific committee : Yves Abrioux (Université Paris 8) Noelle Batt (Université Paris 8) Maarten Bullynck (Université Paris 8) Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Université Paris 8) Claire Larsonneur (Université Paris 8) Hélène Machinal (Université de Brest) Arnaud Regnauld (Université Paris 8) Mathieu Triclot (Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:34:11 +0200 From: Marco BÜCHLER Subject: Final Call for Abstracts - The 2012 Leipzig eHumanities Seminar *Please mind the changed date of submission.* The Leipzig eHumanities Seminar establishes a new forum for the discussion of digital methods applied within the Humanities. Topics include text mining, machine learning, network analysis, time series, sentiment analysis, agent-based modelling, or efficient visualization of massive and humanities relevant data. The seminars take place every Wednesday afternoon (16:30 - 19:00) from October to Novemberat the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in Leipzig, Germany. All accepted papers will be published in a printed volume. Furthermore, a small budget for travel cost reimbursements is available. Abstracts of no more than 1000 words should be sent by June 22nd *//*/(was 15th)/, 2012 to seminar@e-humanities.net. Notifications and program announcements will be sent by the end of July. If you have any questions please contact at seminar@e-humanities.net. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:45:08 +0100 From: Klaus Staubermann Subject: ARTEFACTS 2012 - registration now open ARTEFACTS 2012 Registration is now open ARTEFACTS is an international network of academic and museum-based scholars of science, technology and medicine interested in promoting the use of objects in research. The network was established in 1996 and since then has held annual conferences examining the role of artefacts in the making of science and technology and related areas. This year's conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 7-9 October 2012. The conference aims to discuss the entanglement of national identity and scientific, technical and medical artefacts in a global context. A preliminary conference programme can be found at http://www.artefactsconsortium.org/ ARTEFACTS conferences are friendly and informal meetings and there is plenty of time for open discussion and networking. If you want to attend the conference please contact Sarah Park at s.park@nms.ac.uk not later than 31 July 2012. The conference will be held at the award-winning refurbished National Museum of Scotland. For further information about travel, accommodation and holidays in Scotland visit www.visitscotland.com http://www.visitscotland.com/ Dr Klaus Staubermann Principal Curator of Technology National Museums Scotland Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF Tel (0)131-247-4357 Fax (0)131-247-4312 e-mail k.staubermann@nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:10:55 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Emerging DH Training Network, Institutes (DHSI, DHWI, DH@Oxford,DH@Leipzig) We're very pleased to announce that the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DH@Oxford), the Culture & Technology European Summer School in Digital Humanities (DH@Leipzig), and the Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI) are working together to establish a network of DH training institutes, with more locations to be announced soon. Please see our partnered offerings! - DH@Oxford (next, 2-6 July 2012) - http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/ - DH@Leipzig (next, 23-31 July 2012) - http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ - DHWI (next, 7-11 Jan 2013) - http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/ - DHSI (next, 10-14 June 2013) - http://dhsi.org/ Elizabeth Burr, DH@Leipzig James Cummings, DH@Oxford Jennifer Guiliano, DHWI Sebastian Rahtz, DH@Oxford Ray Siemens, DHSI ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Clearihue C315 & B043b P:250.721.7255  F:250.721.6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 14 20:15:03 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3B4FC45D; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:15:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8DC8EFC450; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:14:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120614201456.8DC8EFC450@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:14:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.88 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 88. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing [2] From: Henry Francis Lynam (19) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:20:36 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120613204603.C850B281B27@woodward.joyent.us> Daniel: Thanks very much for the response. I tried to include the concept of "maintainability of the code" in my prior response here: << I would think that simplicity (finding three step solutions rather than ten step), servicability (easy to fix when things go wrong), and readability (easy to view and understand) would be very important. These all have some aesthetic value but I think they're still very much dependent upon use value as well.>> I called it "serviceability," though. The issues that I was trying to get to: 1. Aesthetic computing has to be about the code itself. 2. Aesthetics has traditionally considered use-value a completely separate consideration from aesthetic value, while aesthetic computing would not be able to separate the two. For example, what makes a beautiful hammer beautiful has nothing to do with how well it hammers, but what makes beautiful code beautiful always has to do, somewhat, with how well it works. I do agree, however, that once we acknowledge that aesthetic computing is about the code itself, only programmers can judge the aesthetics of code. But, only programmers who are capable of understanding an aesthetic judgment. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:43:05 +0100 From: Henry Francis Lynam Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120613204603.C850B281B27@woodward.joyent.us> I am enjoying this discussion on aesthetic computing. I think there is a tendency to look for aesthetics in computer code after it has been finalised and published. But another source of aesthetics in code occurs during the creation of the code. Think of a champion cyclist competing in a major competition. As they compete in stage after stage, their triumphs and failures create a narrative that is both compelling and indeed artistic. I think a master programmer pitting themselves against a difficult problem, creating code, erasing it, refining it, is also involved in an artistic process. Indeed, this narrative may be more accessible to the non-programmer than the resulting code. When programmers comment on the quality of each others code, the creation narrative behind the code is always an integral part of any aesthetic judgement. I remember a (possibly apocryphal) story about Bill Gates coding a version of BASIC for a demo with IBM without having access to any hardware to test it. But apparently, when he ran it on the IBM hardware it worked flawlessly first time. In this example, the aesthetics of the code are not found in the final published piece of code, but in the challenge of creating working code under difficult circumstances. Henry Lynam. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 14 20:17:09 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A39FC50F; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:17:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 943E9FC4FA; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:17:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120614201702.943E9FC4FA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:17:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.89 data mining X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 89. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:59:34 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.86 data mining? In-Reply-To: <20120613204802.92845281BD3@woodward.joyent.us> It strikes me that this is not so much a definition of data mining as a description of some methods employed to perform data mining. It is roughly the same as saying "By gold mining, I mean the use of an industrial scale facility for crushing truck-loads of gold ore and using a water sluice to separate the crushed rock from the gold granules" vs. "By gold mining, I mean the use of a panning tool kit by an indiviual miner wading in a brook of water running downstream". > In a forthcoming article in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, the > author says that, > >> By data mining, I mean the activity of fitting a wide variety of >> models to the data in the opportunistic hope of finding one that fits >> well. > > How does this definition accord with general usage? Some time ago > someone (perhaps someone here) made the distinction between two kinds of > digging: (1) for diamonds and the like, i.e. very careful search for > precious objects, with the objective of extracting them intact, and (2) > for iron & similar, i.e. excavating huge quantities of raw ore and dirt, > then later extracting the desired substance by means of mechanical, > chemical or thermal processes. The above definition looks like a rather > different sense, and one for which the metaphor of mining doesn't work > so well. > > I expect that like many terms we use, usage is quite loose. I suspect > that "data mining" often means no more than searching for stuff, but > that it sounds robust, industrial, gritty -- and so real, honest, worthy > of funding etc. Like "knowledge engineering". Instead of a beanie with a > propeller on top a hard-hat encrusted with processor chips? > > But if this forthcoming article has nailed an important meaning of the > term, then it would be good to have some description of how such > mining is done. > > 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 14 20:18:52 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42603FC5A1; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:18:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 42A92FC58C; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:18:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120614201842.42A92FC58C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:18:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.90 crowd-sourcing in the humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 90. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:12:17 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: crowd-sourcing in the humanities The increasingly networked nature of the academic world is raising important questions about how the humanities can interact with wider communities outside the academy. 'Crowd-sourcing' is a term that has come to encompass a range of activities involving such interaction. It has been used in the past by physical scientists, principally to process very large datasets. It also relates - in different ways - to humanities data, including, but not limited to, transcribing, classifying, proofreading, tagging and commenting. More recently, some humanities researchers have begun to experiment with ways of crowd-sourcing interpretative and creative material. This is a complex and partially-understood area, and to investigate it, the Centre for e-Research in KCL's Department of Digital Humanities has received funding from the AHRC's Connected Communities programme to conduct a research review of crowd-sourcing in the humanities. We hope this will uncover a range of ways in which the academy-based humanities can collaborate with wider audiences. The project website can be found at http://humanitiescrowds.org/. We are currently seeking to identify contributors to crowd-sourcing contributors, and are conducting a survey. If you make use of crowd-sourcing in any project in the humanities, we would like your help in publicizing this link: http://humanitiescrowds.org/survey/. This asks some questions about contributors' backgrounds, the nature of the crowd-sourcing work they undertake, and about their motivations for doing so. Please forward this link to anyone who may have relevant experience or knowledge to share. We are also aware that research and other relevant information in an area such as this is often to be found outside traditional academic publications, in blogs, tweets, project sites etc. We would welcome the contribution of any such links to our Delicious stack: http://delicious.com/stacks/view/KMzXC2 so that they can be included in our review. Along side the project, we have set up a general purpose discussion forum, which all are welcome to join: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/crowdsourcing. Mark Hedges and Stuart Dunn -- Dr Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk 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 14 20:23:03 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BEB3FC65C; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:23:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0ED24FC642; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:22:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120614202251.0ED24FC642@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:22:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.91 events: archaeology; editing; 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. 26, No. 91. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Clare Mills (35) Subject: Digital Humanities Congress - Early Bird Registration [2] From: Joris van Zundert (41) Subject: Interedition - 12th Bootcamp: Call For Participation [3] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (34) Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:53:12 +0100 From: Clare Mills Subject: Digital Humanities Congress - Early Bird Registration Dear Colleagues, I'm pleased to let you know that registration has opened for the Digital Humanities Congress 2012. This is a new conference to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. Hosted by the University of Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute the conference will take place from 6 - 8 September 2012. Early bird discounts are available until 30 June. The keynote speakers will be: . Professor Andrew Prescott (Head of Department, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London) . Professor Lorna Hughes (University of Wales, Chair in Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales) . Professor Philip Ethington (Professor of History and Political Science, University of Southern California and Co-Director of the USC Center for Transformative Scholarship) For further details and registration visit: http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012 Please consider forwarding this on to any colleagues you think might be interested in attending. With best wishes, Clare Clare Mills HRI Coordinator Humanities Research Institute University of Sheffield 34 Gell Street Sheffield S3 7QY Tel: 0114 222 9890 Fax: 0114 222 9894 Email: c.e.mills@sheffield.ac.uk Web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri Times Higher Education University of the Year --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:49:21 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Interedition - 12th Bootcamp: Call For Participation In-Reply-To: == CALL FOR PARTICIPATION == = Interedition 12th Bootcamp, 15-18 July 2012, Hamburg = Interedition (http://www.interedition.eu) invites all interested scholars and hackers to participate in the upcoming Bootcamp, to be held alongside the DH2012 conference in Hamburg (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/). Interedition is raising the awareness of the importance of interoperability as a major driver for sustainability for tools and data in the field of digital scholarship. This activity takes two forms: firstly, meetings in which researchers in digital scholarship can network their knowledge of tools and the possibilities for their interoperability; secondly, the development of proof-of-concept implementations of interoperable tools. The focus of this bootcamp is on tools and practices related to "digital collaboration" in all its forms. Topics and problems that could be addressed are (but certainly have not be limited to): * real time multi-user resource editing (like in Google Docs) * division of tasks and labour in user groups * exchange of data between different tools applied by users * sharing copyright protected data between users * how do users share data but keep it identifiable as their intellectual property? * tools for collaborative research * tools for crowdsourcing (e.g. for text transcription) * tools, processes, and methods for collaborative development within the Interedition community The last point will be a focus of discussion as well as coding over the course of the bootcamp. Interedition has spent the four years of its tenure as a COST action advocating sustainable solutions for the development of digital tools; as we move into the next phase of our existence as an open-source development community, we will discuss and implement the infrastructure we need to sustain the community itself. REGISTRATION Participation in the bootcamp is free of charge, and is open to any interested participant subject to space constraint. If you wish to participate, please send a short summary of your background and current work (no more than 150 words) to bootcamp@interedition.eu. Preferably also state the topics you'd like to work on during the bootcamp. LOCAL ORGANIZERS Marco Petris (Hamburg) Jan Christoph Meister (Hamburg) (http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/ifg2/personal/jan-christoph-meister.html) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:06:14 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites In-Reply-To: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2012 Friday June 15th at 16:30 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Angeliki Chrysanthi (Southampton) A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites ALL WELCOME This paper investigates movement and behaviour patterns of visitors to archaeological sites as a way of informing interpretive planning. A critical point was the development of a hybrid methodology for collecting and assessing data on movement around sites. I will demonstrate the methodology developed at the archaeological site of Gournia in Greece. Recognised forms of observation and the collection of qualitative data, and technologies such as GPS body tracking, geo-tagging and GIS applications were employed. The interpretation of the processed data provided better insight and an overview of the site’s affordances for movement and revealed the site's 'hot spots' according to visitors’ assessment. 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/wip2012.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 Jun 16 22:41:52 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2CD283C9F; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:41:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 09586283C8C; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:41:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120616224141.09586283C8C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:41:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.92 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 92. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Fishwick (103) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.88 aesthetic computing [2] From: Daniel Allington (42) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.88 aesthetic computing [3] From: Daniel Allington (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.88 aesthetic computing [4] From: "Acord, Sophia Krzys" (7) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 26.88 aesthetic computing [5] From: Paul Fishwick (93) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.78 aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:27:41 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.88 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120614201456.8DC8EFC450@woodward.joyent.us> Been out this week but will respond on a related aesthetic computing post this weekend. I'd like to respond to James's and Henry's observations: On 6/14/12 4:14 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 88. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: James Rovira (22) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing > > [2] From: Henry Francis Lynam (19) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:20:36 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To:<20120613204603.C850B281B27@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Daniel: > > Thanks very much for the response. I tried to include the concept of > "maintainability of the code" in my prior response here: > > << I would think that simplicity (finding three step solutions rather than > ten step), servicability (easy to fix when > things go wrong), and readability (easy to view and understand) would be very > important. These all have some aesthetic value but I think they're still > very much dependent upon use value as well.>> > > I called it "serviceability," though. > > The issues that I was trying to get to: > > 1. Aesthetic computing has to be about the code itself. It includes code but also all aspects of computing, as well as its practice. > 2. Aesthetics has traditionally considered use-value a completely separate > consideration from aesthetic value, while aesthetic computing would not be > able to separate the two. For example, what makes a beautiful hammer > beautiful has nothing to do with how well it hammers, but what makes > beautiful code beautiful always has to do, somewhat, with how well it > works. My own view on aesthetics is broad-based in that it covers all aspects of the body (perception as well as cognition), so that what makes a hammer beautiful is its look, feel, sound, and its function. The separation of use-value from perception is problematic and artificial. Unfortunately, this is where we find ourselves: computer scientists with a narrow definition that is based on optimality and other cognition constructs, and artists with a narrow definition that excludes use-value. I think we should bring all of this back under the umbrella and embrace both. This "two culture" characterization is over-simplistic but there is some truth to it depending on who you ask. Comments welcome here from others on this. Do we have a dual-culture division of use value vs. perceptual elegance/introspection? Some companies (Apple) don't seem to have a clear division, for the better one would hope. > > I do agree, however, that once we acknowledge that aesthetic computing is > about the code itself, only programmers can judge the aesthetics of code. Anyone who programs is a programmer by definition (including many artists I know). We may be agreeing, not sure until all of the dust settles. > But, only programmers who are capable of understanding an aesthetic > judgment. > > Jim R > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:43:05 +0100 > From: Henry Francis Lynam > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To:<20120613204603.C850B281B27@woodward.joyent.us> > > > I am enjoying this discussion on aesthetic computing. I think there is a > tendency to look for aesthetics in computer code after it has been > finalised and published. But another source of aesthetics in code occurs > during the creation of the code. Yes, absolutely. > Think of a champion cyclist competing in a > major competition. As they compete in stage after stage, their triumphs and > failures create a narrative that is both compelling and indeed artistic. I > think a master programmer pitting themselves against a difficult problem, > creating code, erasing it, refining it, is also involved in an artistic > process. Indeed, this narrative may be more accessible to the > non-programmer than the resulting code. When programmers comment on the > quality of each others code, the creation narrative behind the code is > always an integral part of any aesthetic judgement. I remember a (possibly > apocryphal) story about Bill Gates coding a version of BASIC for a demo > with IBM without having access to any hardware to test it. But apparently, > when he ran it on the IBM hardware it worked flawlessly first time. In this > example, the aesthetics of the code are not found in the final published > piece of code, but in the challenge of creating working code under > difficult circumstances. Agreed! -p > > Henry Lynam. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:20:10 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.88 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120614201456.8DC8EFC450@woodward.joyent.us> Jim > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:20:36 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To: <20120613204603.C850B281B27@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Daniel: > > Thanks very much for the response. I tried to include the concept of > "maintainability of the code" in my prior response here: > > << I would think that simplicity (finding three step solutions rather than > ten step), servicability (easy to fix when > things go wrong), and readability (easy to view and understand) would be very > important. These all have some aesthetic value but I think they're still > very much dependent upon use value as well.>> > > I called it "serviceability," though. Ah, sorry about that - you did explain what you meant by that, but I missed it because the word 'serviceable' means something else (and in this context, almost opposite) in British English! It's still not quite what I was getting at, though. When a programmer takes over responsibility for the maintenance of an application or library he or she didn't write, he or she has to read the existing code - and this is the point at which you'll often hear him or her complaining about 'ugly', 'horrible', or 'unidiomatic' code. These are aesthetic judgements that are entirely independent of the end-product's usability. There's an entirely different set of judgements that the same programmer might make with regard to usability: for example, he or she might complain that the code is 'inefficient'. > > The issues that I was trying to get to: > > 1. Aesthetic computing has to be about the code itself. > 2. Aesthetics has traditionally considered use-value a completely separate > consideration from aesthetic value, while aesthetic computing would not be > able to separate the two. For example, what makes a beautiful hammer > beautiful has nothing to do with how well it hammers, but what makes > beautiful code beautiful always has to do, somewhat, with how well it > works. > Yes, use-value and aesthetic value are separate considerations. But I don't see why they should be any less separable in computing than in other fields, or - to run with your example - why a computer program is so very different from a hammer. This is what I was getting at above: complaining that code is 'ugly' is entirely different from complaining that it is 'inefficient'; programmers do both. Also there are cases where code is produced only for aesthetic reasons, with no particular attention paid to use value. Perhaps the most obvious case of this is Perl poetry, eg. 'Black Perl' (Wall, 1990). Perl poetry has to compile, but the compiled program doesn't have to do anything useful. Yes, that is a fringe phenomenon - but it shows that programmers are just as capable of separating aesthetics from use as other makers are, even if they choose not to make that separation in every case (programming being an applied art, after all). > I do agree, however, that once we acknowledge that aesthetic computing is > about the code itself, only programmers can judge the aesthetics of code. > But, only programmers who are capable of understanding an aesthetic > judgment. > Absolutely. Best Daniel -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:54:58 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.88 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120614201456.8DC8EFC450@woodward.joyent.us> > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:43:05 +0100 > From: Henry Francis Lynam > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.85 aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To: <20120613204603.C850B281B27@woodward.joyent.us> > > > I am enjoying this discussion on aesthetic computing. I think there is a > tendency to look for aesthetics in computer code after it has been > finalised and published. But another source of aesthetics in code occurs > during the creation of the code. ... > I remember a (possibly > apocryphal) story about Bill Gates coding a version of BASIC for a demo > with IBM without having access to any hardware to test it. But apparently, > when he ran it on the IBM hardware it worked flawlessly first time. In this > example, the aesthetics of the code are not found in the final published > piece of code, but in the challenge of creating working code under > difficult circumstances. > > Henry Lynam. An interesting and very pertinent point. Btw, there's a similar - though unfortunately not /quite/ true - story about Donald Knuth winning a programming contest with a program that worked first time. If anyone deserves to be guest of honour at the first international conference on aesthetic computing, it surely must be Knuth. Daniel -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:43:53 +0000 From: "Acord, Sophia Krzys" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 26.88 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120614201456.8DC8EFC450@woodward.joyent.us> Thank you, Jim, Willard, Daniel, and Henry for your thoughts. I think that it is pure serendipity that Paul and I begun following the listserv days before Willard's first post on aesthetic computing. On some of your points (from my 'outsider' perspective as a sociologist): Daniel (26.85) makes an important point that aesthetic computing is not a 'one size fits all' model. Well put! Daniel (26.85) and Jim (26.78) seem to be emphasizing the Kantian separation of aesthetic value from use value. How does this understanding relate to Paul's use of Alexander Baumgarten's view of aesthetics as the science of sensory (non-purely-ocular) experiences, which, to me, seems to blur aesthetic value and use value? This latter view has gained much traction in the social sciences because of research that emphasizes aesthetic encounter and sensory perception as an activity that results in action or knowledge acquisition. (cf: research on the medical applications of music: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22584037). Put this way, isn't the aesthetic beauty of the light switch an important part of its use value? Doesn't it 'entice us' into using it, as Bruno Latour might say? So, when Jim notes that use value has to be part of aesthetic value when it comes to programming, I think Paul would agree completely. What aesthetic computing is pushing, as I understand it, is to find ways to increase the use value of computing by making it more aesthetically accessible. And, by 'aesthetically accessible', I mean designing ways that programming structures and languages can appeal to our bodies, senses, and forms of tacit and embodied knowledge in semi-conscious ways that are not reducible to their apparent ocular surface beauty. This may be where Henry Lyman's good point about the importance of process comes in; aesthetic computing aims to engage on the level of process and not only output. (Paul - please correct me if I've got this wrong.) Willard (26.85) makes another great point that computing technologies change how we think, and that our goal must be to find ways to take charge of these transformations to do them well. (Note to self: integrate some of this into my spring STS class after we read Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy.) My question: can aesthetic computing help us think differently about computing such that we can use computing more consciously and for the better? For example, applied drama (cf. John Somers' work at Exeter, my alma mater) can help teenagers to resolve conflicts because the aesthetic engagement through performance provides a different way for teenagers to view and think about their problems. Could aesthetic computing operate under similar principles? Could visualizing and engaging with programming structures differently enable us to build more responsive programs, or enable non-programmers to engage with formal language structures more accessibly? Ok, those are my wild postulations based on my own naiveté about the mechanics of computing. Thank you for your grounded and corrective thoughts! Best wishes, Sophia --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:02:03 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.78 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120611201713.0CDB714A95A@woodward.joyent.us> Some replies on aesthetic computing based on quotes from the Humanities mailing list. Thanks to all for this conversation, especially to James Rovira, David Hoover, Willard McCarty, Sophia Acord, and Daniel Allington. USE-VALUE vs. NON-USE-VALUE There are books on the aesthetics of mathematics (a major anchor for computer science) that focus on the elegance of proof, theories, and products of mathematics. Computing inherited this tradition. In the arts and humanities, aesthetics are often based on other criteria. My point is that we need to bring all of this back together and stop separating use-value from non-use-value, and instead, note that when we view phenomena, our perceptions are guided by many dimensions. As with a Necker Cube, an object such as a steam engine may be viewed almost simultaneously from different viewpoints and perspectives. It does not serve us well to continue to separate use-value from non-use-value. It simply serves to divide us by discipline. The beauty of the hall of engines in the Science Museum in Kensington is in both functionality and sheer beauty of perception. It is not really practical or possible to separate out that a Newcomen engine actually works from its corporeal presence. Much like the Necker Cube, these facets are natural dimensions of the same phenomenon. The engine is beautiful because it functions and because of its form. CODERS AS BUILDERS I feel as though I am walking on egg-shells by playing the role of futurist, for who can really say how code and programs will look in 10 or 20 years? As suggested in the encyclopedia chapter, I believe that a combination of the following two conditions will take hold: 1) "Writing code" will yield to richer, more body-centric representations. In my aesthetic computing class, I encourage students to drop the slates for a moment and sketch how they can build a quicksort or bubblesort machine (out of any materials they desire). Most choose game engines such as Starcraft, Minecraft, and Second Life for these games are progenitors of our future HCI interfaces (to everything, including "code"). It is a different way of thinking, to be sure. How do you build a bubblesort machine? Well, let's see. You need a swapping device, a rail, perhaps a robot, some objects whose attributes sense data. At first sight, this method of programming may seem extremely expensive. Not so in the Holodeck/Matrix/Minority-Report future. We are already experiencing a situation where we can plug and play virtual objects bought from marketplaces that have their own "stock values." 2) The idea of reading and writing will change. Building a machine or some other construct will become a form of writing. Writing will no longer be confined to flat surfaces. Likewise, reading will not be similarly confined. I do not claim to be the first to make these projections by any means. I would enjoy hearing of books and articles whose authors make similar claims. Part of the argument in the AC chapter is that if our minds are already grounded in the body, then why aren't we leveraging this in our representations? To some extent, we already are. The arts and humanities have generated a wide selection of media and representations. In mathematics and computing, we are bound by considerations of efficiency, but technologies that stress the body are exploding in number. These new technologies will yield new representations for code, data, and program. Both Daniel and James make good points about the nature of programming and strategies that are used by computing professionals. Will the visual continue to be a fringe element? Is it confined to a small number of adherents? Perhaps, but I don't see this as programming's future. Instead, I see something quite different than writing characters on flat surfaces. The transition will take time, and traditional writing will always be with us (the book didn't disappear with cinema). At the present time, my own work in this area targets non-computing experts and education. Suggesting what experts will be doing in 20 years is fraught with speculation. NOVICES VS. EXPERTS On the importance of visualization in computing, I have to recall my time as a grad student when I saw the first MacIntosh. I had a PC and was quite familiar with writing things such as find . -name "*.doc" -print | xargs grep "Test" What's not to like? At first, it was only the novices who were drawn to Xerox/Apple gestural interfaces. This opened computing to the masses. But now we all do it, even the experts. Since the beginning of the computer revolution, the use of visual and audible cues have increased and will continue to increase. It is not just a matter of MAX/MSP catering to a fringe element. Much of what we do is visual. Workflow systems (Kepler, built on Ptolemy, Simulink, Yahoo Pipes, etc) are all visual. Of course, all digital architectures are visual (IC layout, digital logic diagrams). Most large-scale programming is mapped out visually first (UML and BPEL workflows). All of this is a logical progression if our cognition is grounded in the body (to where using spatial metaphors is an improvement over a removal of the body from our media interfaces). Interfaces, for experts, must be efficient. So, until we have the holodecks or easier ways to code control and and data flow, traditional writing approaches will continue to dominate. I think for those who are not experts, or who wish to learn about computing, there are more opportunities in representation. --Paul Fishwick, PhD Florida Blue Key Distinguished Professor Director, Digital Arts and Sciences CISE Department, CSE 301 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Email: fishwick@cise.ufl.edu Web: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick Blog: http://www.representationz.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 16 22:48:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D41283EAB; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:48:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27D3B283E95; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:48:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120616224828.27D3B283E95@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:48:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.93 jobs at Amsterdam, RIA Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 93. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (16) Subject: DRI Educational Technologist Position [2] From: "Bod, Rens" (7) Subject: Associate Professorship in Digital Humanities (for 4 years) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:13:06 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: DRI Educational Technologist Position The Digital Repository of Ireland are advertising a Educational Technologist role for the DRI. The Educational Technologist will be employed on a three year fixed term contract (four day week) starting 1st August 2012 This contract is funded under PRTLI 5 and will be filled on a three year fixed term contract (four day week). The successful applicant must be in a position to start no later than the 1st August 2012. The Educational Technologist is an important, core role in the project team, having responsibility for the external presentation of DRI, DRI public events, and leading the skills and training programme of the project for the benefit of our stakeholders. The project office is based in Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Please see: http://www.ria.ie/our-work/about/human-resources.aspx for more details. Applications should be submitted through the Irish Jobs website http://www.irishjobs.ie/Jobs/Educational-Technologist-6812833.aspx before the closing date Thursday 28thJune at 12 noon. --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0) 1 2342441 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:47:25 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: Associate Professorship in Digital Humanities (for 4 years) Associate Professorship in Digital Humanities (for 4 years) To strengthen its Priority Area Digital Humanities, the Faculty of Humanities (University of Amsterdam) invites applications for an Associate Professor in Digital Humanities. The candidate will bring a relevant and innovative research agenda in Digital Humanities and will be especially interested the development and application of digital methods in the humanities. Digital research corpora of literature, art, music and language are changing the humanities in a spectacular way, leading to new questions that seemed unanswerable until very recently. The Digital Humanities or e-Humanities transcend the individual humanities disciplines, and candidates will be at home in more than one discipline. Deadline for applications: 1 August 2012. For more information see: http://www.uva.nl/vacatures/vacatures.cfm/C3066CFC-A9DF-412F-929FCDBAF1712491 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 20:58:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 147001581E4; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:58:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5AD4A1581CA; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:58:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120617205840.5AD4A1581CA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:58:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.94 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 94. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (102) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.92 aesthetic computing [2] From: Willard McCarty (44) Subject: traffic --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:19:28 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.92 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120616224141.09586283C8C@woodward.joyent.us> Many thanks to all for this interesting conversation, especially Daniel, Paul, Sophia, Henry, and Willard for starting it. I would like to start by saying that I introduced the Kantian separation of use value from aesthetic value to illustrate how they have to be combined in computer programming. I'm not so much advocating the separation as stating that aesthetic computing would have to be judged by somewhat different criteria than other aesthetic objects because in normal programming circumstances they have to be combined. Sophia's example of a light switch that "entices" people to use it I think only illustrates the separation, I think. There are really only two things you can do with a light switch: turn it on and turn it off. If you turn on the light to see in the room, you don't need to be enticed to do so -- you need the light on. You turn it off to save electricity. All use value. But if a light switch entices you to turn it off and on, here in the US we call that "playing with the lights." Children do that. But then you don't necessary care about the lights. You care about playing with the switch -- and seeing the lights flash, maybe -- which doesn't really serve any purpose either. So I think in the case of an object use value and aesthetic value tend to remain separate. I like the definition of aesthetics as the science of sensory perception, so long as we narrow that to a certain kind of sensory perception -- the kind that produces sensory perceptions regarded as artistic effects. Otherwise, that's just biomechanics. We wouldn't say that sensory perceptions that cause a sharp pain in my big toe or gastrointestinal disturbance are the product of an aesthetic effect. The idea of aesthetics as the science of sensory perception (generally speaking) can be found in Kierkegaard's Either/Or and its discussion of the aesthetic personality -- and Kierkegaard's presentation of the aesthetic personality overall. Regarding Daniel's paragraph below: <> What you describe above is pretty much what I had in mind, but I think when a programmer says that code is "ugly" they usually mean it's difficult to read, hard to work with, hard to troubleshoot, hard to follow the logic of, etc., don't they? I would agree that these judgments do not necessarily relate to the end-product's usability (as we'd have to assume that the product works with this ugly code for the example to work), but isn't this still use-value? I'm not talking about efficiency either, which usually does relate to the end product (say, how long the webpage takes to load). I think complaints about ugly code have to do with its lack of linearity, lack of simplicity, its redundancy, its lack of logic, etc., which tend to relate to how easy it is to understand. I would be the most beautiful code to programmers is streamlined, simple, and logical -- easy to understand and to change and otherwise "work" with. But they're still thinking of working with it. Use value. Also there are cases where code is produced only for aesthetic reasons, > with no particular attention paid to use value. Perhaps the most obvious > case of this is Perl poetry, eg. 'Black Perl' (Wall, 1990). Perl poetry has > to compile, but the compiled program doesn't have to do anything useful. > Yes, that is a fringe phenomenon - but it shows that programmers are just > as capable of separating aesthetics from use as other makers are, even if > they choose not to make that separation in every case (programming being an > applied art, after all). > Now the Perl poetry example is I think a real exception. It has to compile (work), but no one cares about the usability of the product. A gesture at usability is made, but the point is the beauty of the code itself. I think we need to ask ourselves, why the gesture at usability? But, I like this example. Paul confirmed a suspicion I had early on with his response. I think those books could contribute quite a bit to this discussion indeed. > There are books on the aesthetics of mathematics (a major anchor for > computer science) that focus on the elegance of proof, theories, and > products of mathematics. Computing inherited this tradition. In the arts > and humanities, aesthetics are often based on other criteria. The thing is, what makes an object usable and what makes an object aesthetically pleasing usually does tend to be two different things. I think most people who create things that work are aware of this tension. I mean, even a simple object like a pinewood derby car (5 oz. wooden cars that children or their parents modify, decorate, then race) can be designed for speed or for aesthetic effect. When I was a child my father and I built our cars to win on speed, but the cars designed to win for looks were designed very differently. One looked like a face -- nose, lips, and all. Amusing. And then we can set aesthetic criteria within the parameters of usability too. So the cars designed for speed will all be wedge-shaped, low, weighted toward the front (the cars go down a ramp at first) -- so once you take those design parameters into account, which cars are the more beautiful? But, importantly, what makes them the more beautiful doesn't make them any faster. Beautiful code might actually process more quickly, but I recall now that I was told in the 90s not to put any spaces between my code elements or break it up into lines. Doing so makes the code easier to read and follow but makes the page load more slowly. Use vs. aesthetic value. I wrote my code with spaces and line breaks. I was a literature guy. I wanted it readable, especially if (when) I made mistakes. Of course all objects have both going on at once -- usability and aesthetic value. These are different ways of looking at the same objects, yes. What I was suggesting about aesthetic computing is that computing is exceptional in that usability has to be part of its aesthetic value (with exceptions). What makes the code more beautiful can be the same as what makes the page load faster. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:55:26 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: traffic In-Reply-To: <20120616224141.09586283C8C@woodward.joyent.us> When I responded to the news of aesthetic computing, I had in mind the traffic from aesthetics to computer science as a case of a relation between the humanities and CS that is more than specification of a problem to be solved. I don't think it's particularly difficult to talk at least in a preliminary way about such a relation if we talk about a particular discipline of the humanities, such as history or philosophy or literary studies on the one hand and CS on the other. And it's possible to get further by being more specific as to what sort of history, philosophy or kind of literary studies. Aesthetic computing thus begins with aesthetics, but the relation could just as easily be with respect to ethics or epistemology on the humanities side. And the discussion here has been with respect to CS in the form mostly of programming but could be AI or HCI, for example. But is it possible, indeed attractive to try to say what exactly all such cases could be cases of? To ask the question in a different way: why is this discussion taking place now? Or politically: cui bono? What need or desire is being felt? Is there more than humanists wanting to be involved in something scientific and computer scientists needing more interesting problems to work on? Is a Leibnizian marriage on the horizon? In Plans and the Structure of Behavior (1960), George Miller, Karl Pribram and Eugene Galanter ask why the confidence of psychologists has received such a boost from being able to do things with machinery. They dismiss Clark Hull's notion that machinery keeps the psychologist from too much anthropomorphic subjectivity. The answer they arrive at is a form of Vico's verum factum -- that, as they write, "The creation of a model is proof of the clarity of the vision. If you understand how a thing works well enough to build your own, then your understanding must be nearly perfect." (46) The attraction for the psychologist is that he or she is able to achieve, they write 10 pages later, "the concrete actualization of an abstract idea". Could we then say that the principle of the two-way traffic between at least some disciplines of the humanities and CS is centred on this concrete actualizing of abstract ideas? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 18 20:16:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA6A2824C9; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:16:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 551E72824AC; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:16:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120618201642.551E72824AC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:16:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.95 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 95. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.94 aesthetic computing [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (70) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.94 aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:00:30 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.94 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120617205840.5AD4A1581CA@woodward.joyent.us> I am learning a lot from this thread, and it is per se interesting. Notwithstanding, I remain somewhat irritated by the use of the very term "æsthetic" sans recognition that the history of the theory or philosophy of the Æsthetic realm remains blurred, not acceptably given, and not understood. I suppose I refer to the absolute relativity expressed by the old phrase: *B**eauty is in the eye of the beholder. *Call it what you will, eye, perceptor, phenomenal mass, whatever. As each human being is unique [pace Kierkegaard], and a singularity, as it were, or so to say, from conception on, including identical twins, who part at delivery, first and second out into the world, all of that being's perceptions, the Æsthetic, will differ absolutely. Maths and formulas in science might fix one form or structure in time, and even then momentarily, and one can speak of an "elegant" formulation or solution, and design of maximum elegance...but I would think, if philosophical statements are bruited, it ought to be recognized from the first that the underlying structure of the Universe as an Existent is composed, so far as we can surmise, of particles that flash in and out of Being itself. Quanta, or Quantum statements, statistical in nature, I think, suggest that. So to speak of the "Æsthetic" in programming is I would suppose altogether beside any useful point, except for judging values, themselves...alas, momentary in the eyes of beholders. Jascha Kessler On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > the beauty of the code itself. -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:24:39 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.94 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120617205840.5AD4A1581CA@woodward.joyent.us> I am curious about this discussion of 'aesthetic computing' (though the title was quite confusing for me and at first I thought the intent was to discuss programs whose products were to be aesthetic works, such as art or musical compositions). I should give some of my background. I majored in mathematics at the undergraduate level and only switched to computer science during my second year of graduate school, getting a Masters in Computer Science/Mathematics. I then went on to get my Ph.D. nominally in computer science, but actually as an interdisciplinary degree using coursework in CS, Information Science and Anthropoligical Linguistics. I consider myself a computational linguist. As a programmer and as a mathematician I am familiar with the concept of elegance in code (programs) and mathematical theorems. In both fields one of the criteria for elegance is the succintness of the statement of the program or the proof. When computers began generating proofs of mathematical theorems, typically using enumeration of hundreds or thousands of specific cases that led to a proof; those proofs were considered exceptionally inelegant. Atrocities actually. However, for both math and CS there is a special circumstance lacking in most of the humanities; an absolute yes/no result. Do the mathematical statements PROVE the theorem; does the code compute the desired output. In programming (and math), the shortness of the statement is still almost all that is necessary to gain the appelation, "elegant". If someone can write a shorter program that computes the same result; or create a shorter proof of a theorem; that is a more elegant proof. Shortness in programs is also a factor of something you haven't mentioned; the programming language used. This gets one into the question of high level languages vs. low level languages. It also raises the question of efficiency of the programming language (and by that I mean something separate from the elegance/shortness of the program). You see, alas, a programming language that you would use is translated into instructions for the computer in machine language. So, high level languages, which could permit you to write shorter programs, could translate into more machine language steps than lower level languages. That's why there are optimizers, programs that attempt to optimize machine language programs to contain fewer steps. This makes the issue of aesthetic computing more complex; and the question of efficiency somewhat outside the hands of the programmer once he has chosen a given programming language in which to work. However, the simplest statement here is that the more elegant program (or theorem) is always the shorter one that does the same thing. But that doesn't necessarily mean that program is the most efficient. Its elegance may be dependent upon the 'power' of the programming language that eliminates the need to specify more steps because its commands translate into more machine code instructions. One final note. In programming, there is a separate concept of 'readability' of code. This is often at the core of complaints or praise from programmers of other programmer's work. If a program is well-written it is easier to maintain because it is clearer what the code does at every step. Modifying such a program is much easier for subsequent programmers. Writing a program to be exceptionally readable is a special consideration; not unlike writing clearly in a natural language. One thing programmers can do when they seek to conceal their code's function from being copied is to eliminate the use of mnemonic variables and comments in the code. If you systematically replace variable names like "INPUT" and "RESULT" with names like "X1" and "X2", the code still works---but becomes cryptic to those trying to read it and understand what it does. I don't know what to say about the effect such a translation would have upon the aesthetics of the program. And, also, remember, the middle ground between programming and theorems is algorithms. Algorithms can also be elegant in the way mathematical proofs are elegant. The implementation of an algorithm in a programming language would seem to be a secondary form of expression. One could presumably have an elegant algorithm which was implemented as a far less elegant program by an unskilled programmer who selected the wrong programming language or wrote the code in an inelegant way. Elegance isn't necessarily guaranteed when you translate. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 20:18:45 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85994282547; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:18:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A8551282533; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:18:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120618201835.A8551282533@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:18:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.96 jobs at The Open/Haifa X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 96. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:39:29 +0100 From: Wintner Shuly Subject: Research Positions in Grammar Engineering and Grammar Development Research Positions in Grammar Engineering and Grammar Development The Open University and the University of Haifa, Israel http://cl.haifa.ac.il/ For an externally-funded research project, titled "Grammar Engineering and Collaborative Grammar Development", we are looking for highly-talented, motivated research assistants at the doctoral and post-doctoral levels. You will be part of a team that develops mechanisms for grammar engineering that facilitate collaborative grammar development. The grammar development environment we develop is based on typed unification grammars, and is aimed to support the development of large-scale HPSG grammars. You will be expected to contribute either to the computational effort of designing and implementing grammar engineering solutions, or to the linguistic effort of developing wide-coverage HPSG grammars for Hebrew and Arabic. The ideal candidate should: - have a solid background in computer science, linguistics, or computational linguistics - be familiar with contemporary syntactic theories, ideally HPSG - be creative, innovative and hard-working - be able to work independently - possess excellent communication skills, both oral and written (in English) Post-doctoral scholarships require a PhD in hand (or about to be conferred). They are for one year, with very likely extension to a second (and maybe a third) year. Doctoral scholarships require a Masters degree in a relevant area. They are for three to four years. To apply, please e-mail an updated CV, with the names and contact details of at least three references, to Shuly Wintner (shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il). Further documentation (e.g., transcripts of previous studies) may be needed at a later stage. For any inquiries on these positions please contact Shuly Wintner by e-mail. Applications will be processed immediately. Work should ideally start no later than October 2012. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 18 20:22:16 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C8A282686; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:22:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9EE7128266D; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:22:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120618202206.9EE7128266D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:22:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.97 events: logic, language & information X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 97. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:33:38 +0100 From: Johan Bos Subject: ESSLLI 2013: extended deadline (june 29) course/workshop proposals Call for Course and Workshop Proposals ESSLLI 2013 25th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Duesseldorf, Germany August 5-16, 2013 http://esslli2013.de/ EXTENDED DEADLINE DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES =============== 29 June 2012: Proposal submission deadline (extended) 15 September 2012: Notification 1 June 2013: Course material due TOPICS AND FORMAT ================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI'2013 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computing and Information Sciences. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases the ESSLLI programme committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waved, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. CATEGORIES ========== Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. * FUNDAMENTAL COURSES * Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. * INTRODUCTORY COURSES * Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. 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Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2013 and include all of the following: o Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, fax, homepage (optional) o General proposal information: Title, category o Contents information * Abstract of up to 150 words * Motivation and description (up to two pages) * Tentative outline * Expected level and pre-requisites * Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) o Practical information: * Relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable * Potential external funding for participants _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 19 20:55:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3578928267A; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:55:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 927B0282664; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:55:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120619205532.927B0282664@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:55:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.98 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 98. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:56:42 -0400 From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.95 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120618201642.551E72824AC@woodward.joyent.us> I recalled while reading this thread Donald Knuth's *Literate Programming* (1992). I wondered whether there was a connection between LP and aesthetic computing. Based on some of the discussion about elegance and computer programs, perhaps aesthetic computing and literate computing are related. The Wikipedia article on LP lists one recent journal article from January 2012 in the *Journal of Statistical Software that, because of its discussion of Emacs as an LP environment, grabbed my attention: Schulte, E., Davison, D., Dye, T. & Dominik, C. (January 2012). A multi-language computing environment for literate programming and reproducible research. *Journal of Statistical Software*. 46(3). http://www.jstatsoft.org/v46/i03 rdr -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD, Associate Professor of English Morehead State University r.royar@moreheadstate.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 19 20:57:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7924282704; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:57:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99AE62826F5; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:57:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120619205727.99AE62826F5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:57:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.99 events: destroying heritage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 99. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:44:27 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: Cultural Heritage Destruction Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2012 Friday June 22nd at 16:30 Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Alejandro Giacometti, Lindsay MacDonald (UCL) & Alberto Campagnolo (University of the Arts) Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging ALL WELCOME In this seminar we describe the methodology and present preliminary results of a project using multispectral imaging to document the deterioration of parchment. A series of treatments has been applied to degrade samples from a deaccessioned manuscript using both physical and chemical agents. Each sample has been photographed before and after the treatment by a multispectral imaging system to record the effect of the treatments on both the writing and the parchment. We present the initial imaging of the samples, details on their treatment agents and how they affect the writing and parchment, the final imaging, and some image processing analysis. 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/wip2012.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 Wed Jun 20 20:22:13 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A9D16BBD4; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:22:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C47AA16BBBE; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:21:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120620202159.C47AA16BBBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:21:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.100 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 100. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:19:50 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.95 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120618201642.551E72824AC@woodward.joyent.us> Many thanks for Jascha and amsler for their recent contributions to the aesthetic programming thread. Amsler's response seemed to confirm much of what had been said previously about the nature of aesthetic judgments on computer code -- they tend toward valuing simplicity in the sense that more work for less code is good, and valuing ease understanding the code (code that was written in order to be understood, that is). These judgments would be made within the parameters and limitations of the medium (specific programming language). Jascha's post reminded us of an age-old problem with aesthetic judgments, and that's their relative nature: > I suppose I refer to the absolute relativity expressed by the > old phrase: *B**eauty is in the eye of the beholder. *Call it what you > will, eye, perceptor, phenomenal mass, whatever. As each human being is > unique [pace Kierkegaard], and a singularity, as it were, or so to say, > from conception on, including identical twins, who part at delivery, first > and second out into the world, all of that being's perceptions, the > Æsthetic, will differ absolutely. The problem that people writing about aesthetic judgments encounter is not that they are absolutely arbitrary, but that they are both relative and predictable -- which is more complex. If aesthetic judgment was purely subjective (hence unpredictable), aesthetics would not be a field of study. If aesthetic judgments were always predictable, then aesthetics would be a branch of logic or mathematics rather than a study of emotional and visceral responses to artistic products. Both Hume and Kant would say that asserting that aesthetic judgments differ absolutely is oversimple. I don't think that's the case even in our everyday experience -- we find that many people share the same judgment that we do about many artistic products, and that is why artists can "play to the crowd" when they want. Kant attempted to resolve this difficulty by introducing the idea of a "subjective universal" -- while our own experience of a beautiful object is our own (subjective), people groups tend to respond similarly. Kant's argument in this part of the Critique of Judgment is fairly complex. He makes a number of distinctions, including distinctions between objects that only give sensory satisfaction and objects that provoke the response "That is beautiful." If we're only thinking in terms of sensory satisfaction (say, what flavor ice cream that we like), of course our judgments will differ absolutely. However, Kant argues that our judgment about the beauty of an object is more than pure sensory gratification, like our love of a variety of flavors of ice cream. There's a process of reflection involved in our judgment of beautiful objects -- perhaps not always an extended one, but reflection is still present. A man sees a woman and perhaps thinks that she's beautiful immediately -- perhaps he is struck by her beauty -- but he can tell his friend why he thinks that she is beautiful, though maybe only after thinking about it for awhile. But he can't really say why he likes Ben and Jerry's Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream more than their Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey ice cream other than to say that he likes mint more than cherry or banana and walnuts. And he probably can't tell you why he likes mint better. He just does. There's no real judgment involved in the preference of basic tastes. I'm not talking about the judgment of a chef, though, who might tell you whether or not the broccoli casserole is a bad or good or great broccoli casserole -- a judgment the chef might hold even if he or she hated broccoli. In the case of something beautiful (short for "aesthetically pleasing"), Kant suggested that we find that part of the pleasure is in engaging our mind in talking to others about the experience itself. Again, we find this pleasure in talking about an aesthetically pleasing object as being part of the aesthetic experience to be a very common one -- when we really enjoy a movie or book, we want to talk about it a lot more than when we enjoy a really good bowl of ice cream (which usually just results in telling our friends where to get this great ice cream). I'm fairly certain that our discussions about ice cream are much shorter than our discussions of books and films, even among those who are neither critics nor chefs, because we can only tell our friends where the ice cream is great, but not which flavor they will like the best. Think about ti this way: which of the following statements might provoke an informed and rational argument? I like chocolate better than vanilla ice cream (not, I like Ben and Jerry's vanilla ice cream better than Haagan Das's vanilla ice cream -- which might provoke an informed argument leading to objective criteria for "good vanilla ice cream," which might still differ). I think that the first Matrix film was better made than V for Vendetta (not, I like Romantic Comedies better than Action films). Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 20 20:24:06 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A626C16BC2D; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:23:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8E39916BC11; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:23:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120620202336.8E39916BC11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:23:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.101 teaching scholarly communication? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 101. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:47:59 -0400 From: Patricia Hswe Subject: Survey on scholarly communication instruction - please participate Greetings, We are conducting a survey to inform a study about scholarly communication instruction in college and university curricula. The co-investigators are Patricia Hswe, Digital Collections Curator, and Nan Butkovich, Head, Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library - both at Penn State University Libraries. Our findings will inform a book chapter we are writing on this topic. We post to this list, in the event that there are humanities scholars who are teaching about scholarly communications issues in their courses or via workshops. Topics typically associated with scholarly communication include - but are not limited to - open access and scholarly publishing, copyright and fair use, open data, author rights, peer review practices, and institutional repositories. The survey is available to complete, June 20 through July 3: https://surveys.libraries.psu.edu/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=9l3J699 There are 20 questions, which should take only about 15-20 minutes of your time. Also included in this email and in the survey is the full informed consent information (see below). We hope you'll respond to our survey and play a part in helping us improve our understanding of scholarly communication instruction. All best, Patricia ========== Full Informed Consent Information 1. Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this survey is to collect information about current instructional activities in scholarly communication issues, including - but not limited to - scholarly publishing, copyright, fair use, open access, open data, and author rights. Your participation will help us learn what topics in scholarly communication are currently being taught and how; what types of professionals are teaching about these issues; and what audiences are receiving this instruction. 2. Procedures to be followed: You will be asked to answer 20 questions on a survey. 3. Duration: It will take about 15-20 minutes to complete the survey. 4. Statement of Confidentiality: Your participation in this research is confidential. No personally identifiable information will be shared. 5. Right to Ask Questions: Please contact Patricia Hswe at phswe@psu.edu ( 814-867-3702 ), or Nan Butkovich at njb2@psu.edu ( 814-865-3716 ), with any questions or concerns about this study. 6. Voluntary Participation: Your decision to be in this research is voluntary. You can stop at any time. You do not have to answer any questions you do not want to answer. Completion of the survey implies that you have read the information above and consent to take part in this research. You may wish to keep this information for your future reference. -- Patricia Hswe, MSLIS, PhD Digital Collections Curator Penn State University Libraries W311 Pattee Library University Park, PA 16802 -------- IM: pmh22@chat.psu.edu Phone: 814-867-3702 Fax: 814-865-3665 http://patriciahswe.net/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 20 20:27:21 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBDE16BCE8; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:27:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 428DE16BC93; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:25:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120620202707.428DE16BC93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:25:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.102 events: Fall 2012 Digital Humanities Forum at Kansas 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. 26, No. 102. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:41:59 -0500 From: Brian Rosenblum Subject: Registration now open for Fall 2012 DH Forum at University of Kansas Registration for the Fall 2012 Digital Humanities Forum at the University of Kansas is now open. The Forum includes hands-on workshops, a THATCamp, and a day of panels and presentations on the theme of Big Data and Uncertainty in the Humanities. Three fantastic invited speakers will also be presenting: Greg Crane, Kari Kraus, and Geoffrey Rockwell. There is no registration fee to participate, but space is limited, especially for the hands-on workshops and THATCamp. Also, we encourage anyone interested to submit a proposal to present a paper or panel session for the day three program on the theme of Big Data and Uncertainty in the Humanities. We are continuing to accept proposals through June 30. Please see below or visit http://idrh.ku.edu/dh-forum-2012 http://idrh.ku.edu/dh-forum-2012/ for further details. ------------------------- The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce our Fall 2012 Digital Humanities Forum, September 20-22, 2012. The Forum consists of three separate but related programs held over three days: * Day One (Thursday, September 20): WORKSHOPS A set of in-depth, hands on workshops on digital humanities tools topics, such as GIS, data visualization, text markup and annotation, and creating online digital exhibits. * Day Two (Friday, September 21): THATCamp KANSAS An "unconference" for technologists and humanists, with conversations about topics defined on-site by the participants. * Day Three (Saturday, September 22): BIG DATA AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE HUMANITIES A one-day program of panels and poster sessions showcasing digital humanities projects and research. ***See Call for Papers below.*** Plenary speakers at the Forum include * Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library * Kari Kraus, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies and the Department of English at the University of Maryland * Geoffrey Rockwell, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta, Canada See http://idrh.ku.edu/dh-forum-2012 for registration information, and for schedules, lodging arrangements, and other details as they are finalized. *** CALL FOR PAPERS BIG DATA AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE HUMANITIES September 22, 2012, University of Kansas This conference (part of our three-day Digital Humanities Forum) seeks to address the opportunities and challenges humanistic scholars face with the ubiquity and exponential growth of new web-based data sources (e.g. electronic texts, social media, and audiovisual materials) and digital methods (e.g. information visualization, text markup, crowdsourcing metadata). "Big data" is any dataset that is too large to be analyzable with traditional means (whether e.g. manual close readings or database queries). Developments in cloud computing, data management, and analytics mean that humanists and allied scholars can analyze and visualize larger patterns in big data sets. With these opportunities come the challenges of scale and interpretation; we have moved from the uncertainty resulting from having too little data to the uncertainty implicit in large amounts of data. What does this mean for how humanists structure, query, analyze and visualize data? How does this change the questions we ask and the interpretations we assign? How do we combine the best of a macro (larger-pattern) and a micro (close reading) approach? And how is interpretative and other uncertainty modeled? Presentations addressing these both practical and epistemological questions are welcome. Proposal submission information: Presentations may be one of two types: (1) 20 minute paper or demonstration; (2) poster. For all presentations, a 500 word abstract is required. Please indicate whether you are proposing a paper presentation or poster session. Proposals for papers not accepted in the oral sessions may be accommodated in the poster session. Deadline for proposal submissions: June 30. To submit a proposal, please see: http://idrh.ku.edu/dh-forum-2012 . ------------------------- Brian Rosenblum and Arienne Dwyer Co-Directors, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Kansas idrh@ku.edu http://idrh.ku.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 20 20:32:41 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056D316BE1A; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 883DA16BDEF; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:32:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120620203231.883DA16BDEF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:32:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.103 publication 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. 26, No. 103. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:30:44 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Publication Prize in Digital Humanities HASTAC Proudly Announces the First Winners of the University of Michigan Press/ HASTAC Publication Prize in Digital Humanities The University of Michigan Press and HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advance Collaboratory) are pleased to announce the selection of Jentery Sayers and Sheila Brennan as recipients of the UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. Each Prize carries $5,000 in subvention funds and an advance contract with the Press series DigitalHumanities@ digitalculturebooks (http://www.digitalculture.org/). Jentery Sayers, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria, is working on a hybrid print and digital long-form transmedia work How Text Lost Its Source: Magnetic Recording Cultures. It integrates critical theories of technologies and media with knowledge of materials and historical particulars in the neglected cultural history of magnetic recordings. “The final product will be a unique and pioneering contribution to an understudied area, the technocultural history of magnetic recording,” HASTAC Executive Board member and Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks series co-editor Julie Thompson Klein said in recommending Professor Sayers’ project for the award, speaking on behalf of the conference prize committee, co-editors of the series, and Editor-in-Chief of the Press. Sheila Brennan, Associate Director of Public Projects Division and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, is working on a hybrid print and digital project entitled Stamping American Memory, investigating how the post office shaped American cultural memory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through its commemorative stamp program. “This project addresses a neglected aspect of American cultural history that will appeal not only to academic scholars across disciplines and fields but also the general public, including the dedicated community of philatelists,” Dr. Klein said of Stamping American Memory. “It sits at the intersection of vernacular and official interests, bringing to light the role that historical artifacts play in carrying political messages while simultaneously serving the needs and interests of small groups and individuals.” Funded by the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, the UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize launched this year in conjunction with the HASTAC V international conference, Digital Scholarly Communication, hosted on the Michigan campus. Professors Brennan and Sayers were selected for their innovative and important projects advancing the field of Digital Humanities. Congratulations Jentery and Sheila! -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 20 20:58:36 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BEE2830E7; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:58:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 68A8A2830D7; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:58:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120620205819.68A8A2830D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:58:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.104 what is/was the attractor? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 104. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:56:01 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what's the attractor? Historically the question of what made computing successful is far more interesting than one might think. When the computer emerged from the scientific laboratories where it was developed for the purposes of calculation, there were no needs for it to satisfy. Those needs had to be created; people had to be sold on the idea -- and, of course, sold big time, since the machines were very expensive. But in the United States at least money wasn't a problem so much for high-priority items, so the need for salesmanship cannot simply be attributed to high cost. Stories from researchers in non-technical areas, such as psychology, supply better clues, as does the reception of the microcomputer. In an interview, for example, George Miller, the cognitive psychologist responsible for WordNet (and many other things), talks about his discovery computing as a language in which he could at last articulate ideas he had which prior to that were mute. The book he wrote with Pribram and Galanter, Plans and the Structure of Behavior (1960) brims with the excitement of the discovery of this language. Another example is supplied by Theodor Holm Nelson (of "hypertext" fame), who in The Machine that Changed the World, part 3, comments that the release of the first computer kit, the Altair 8800, triggered such a rush for the machine (some people, he says, drove all night to get their kits) as to suggest a latent understanding of what computing could do. The narrator goes on to say that the hobbyists, e.g. in the Homebrew Computer Club, had no clear idea of anything they wanted to do other than to explore what could be done. So, the question, what was the attractor, seems not to be satisfactorily answerable on practical grounds. One could say, people wanted to tinker or play, as with Legos and the like. But responses like Miller's suggest there's more to it than that. So, let me ask: what attracted you? What still attracts? And, please, be honest about it. Perhaps even better, given my scholarly end in mind, would be pointers to reports from the likes of Miller -- people who were trying to say or do something at the time computing came along but who couldn't until they discovered the machine. As well as using the metaphor of a language, Miller also talks about computing as a catalyst to thought, suggesting that there was something cognitively in process being impeded by the lack. Similarly Nelson's word "latent" to describe a cognitive presence that once computing came within reach manifested itself. Any ideas? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 Jun 21 20:29:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D5116BC95; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:29:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1466016BC7F; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:29:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120621202921.1466016BC7F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.105 the attractor X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 105. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:34:23 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.104 what is/was the attractor? In-Reply-To: <20120620205819.68A8A2830D7@woodward.joyent.us> Apart from the *like * of a Miller, let us go back a century. At a party once at the apartment of the Israeli consul, there was an old geezer I was talking to [not meant disrepectfully, but fondly, especially since I may well be older at this hour than he was then]. The type was familiar to me, Russian Jewish emigré, was were my people, accent and restlessness and all. He related: at first he entered Canada, and lived in Windsor, working as a carriage-maker partnered with another young fellow named Henry Ford. After some years Ford proposed they move the business across the border to Detroit, and turn to manufacturing horseless carriages. He didnt take to that fairly risky notion; instead, he chose to go West, homesteading beyond Calgary: free acreage, tools, and a party-telephone line to reduce loneliness on the vast and empty prairie. One thing led to another, and he married a single, or widowed? homesteader woman out there, met on the wire. And then into America and other manufactures. Ford imagined a vehicle for the many, and then the roads had to be built, which are still a-building, across the Continent. Similarly, I went from a portable Smith-Corona, on which I wrote a Dissertation in the summer of 1954 — wrote? hammered out! — and then over a decade progressed to electric portables, then office machines like the Olympia, and then in the later 60s to IBM electric, and then to IBM ball font, the last of which was a sales failure, with about 3 pages of typed memory, and writers need to retype errors all the time, and the whole paper, because the spacings change. IBM came to pick it up and give me back 600$ of the original 2300$. I found Apple I, II too hard to work, though my computer teenage son taught my wife to earliest word app. I waited and got the first Mac Plus via Stanford U., since the PCs were, my son said, good for little, and still are in his view. On that little computer I had 10 days to produce a paper for an international seminar in Budapest in the early '70s. None of that is digital Humanities or even computing, as Willard's communicants are; but neither was it hard to sell the world, since electric calculating machines for bookkeeping were everywhere after the War. The analogy for success is the small motor for the horseless carriage. How many of our DH group are happy to lift the hood of Jaguar, a BMW, or even a Ford these days? Who needs to know the innards? Suffice it, they work, when they do. [Although getting into the front seat of a friend's new Lexus was a scary thing last month: it might as well have been a jet airplane, so very many lights, controls, dicey-nicey or nicey-dicey functions flashed at one, including GPS screen tracing and tracking us all the way [big blocks] to the restaurant. Similarly, the thing is a bit egregious today, as a review in the WSJ of a new competitor for iPhone reveals...apps and steps galore, a swampy jungle of them. Which will bring some, I think, to remark, What can remain æsthetic tomorrow about computing if it is not hidden completely, under the hood, so to say? As in solid state drives, cameras, and the rest? In short, change and novelty have a deep history, usually, from sling to arbalest to grenade launcher...but I do think the *æsthetic* resides in the maths and physics of technology, much as the calculus came out of Roger Bacon's efforts to "compute" trajectory for cannon balls...? Jascha Kessler On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 104. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:56:01 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: what's the attractor? > > Historically the question of what made computing successful is far more > interesting than one might think. When the computer emerged from the > scientific laboratories where it was developed for the purposes of > calculation, there were no needs for it to satisfy. Those needs had to > be created; people had to be sold on the idea -- and, of course, sold > big time, since the machines were very expensive. But in the United > States at least money wasn't a problem so much for high-priority items, > so the need for salesmanship cannot simply be attributed to high cost. > > Stories from researchers in non-technical areas, such as psychology, > supply better clues, as does the reception of the microcomputer. In an > interview, for example, George Miller, the cognitive psychologist > responsible for WordNet (and many other things), talks about his > discovery computing as a language in which he could at last articulate > ideas he had which prior to that were mute. The book he wrote with > Pribram and Galanter, Plans and the Structure of Behavior (1960) brims > with the excitement of the discovery of this language. Another example > is supplied by Theodor Holm Nelson (of "hypertext" fame), who in The > Machine that Changed the World, part 3, comments that the release of the > first computer kit, the Altair 8800, triggered such a rush for the > machine (some people, he says, drove all night to get their kits) as to > suggest a latent understanding of what computing could do. The narrator > goes on to say that the hobbyists, e.g. in the Homebrew Computer Club, > had no clear idea of anything they wanted to do other than to explore > what could be done. > > So, the question, what was the attractor, seems not to be satisfactorily > answerable on practical grounds. One could say, people wanted to tinker > or play, as with Legos and the like. But responses like Miller's suggest > there's more to it than that. > > So, let me ask: what attracted you? What still attracts? And, please, be > honest about it. Perhaps even better, given my scholarly end in mind, > would be pointers to reports from the likes of Miller -- people who were > trying to say or do something at the time computing came along but who > couldn't until they discovered the machine. As well as using the > metaphor of a language, Miller also talks about computing as a catalyst > to thought, suggesting that there was something cognitively in process > being impeded by the lack. Similarly Nelson's word "latent" to describe > a cognitive presence that once computing came within reach manifested > itself. > > Any ideas? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist > (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- 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 Thu Jun 21 20:33:10 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D844F16BD57; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC1AE16BD43; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:32:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120621203259.EC1AE16BD43@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:32:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.106 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 106. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.100 aesthetic computing [2] From: Daniel Allington (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.100 aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:12:22 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.100 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120620202159.C47AA16BBBE@woodward.joyent.us> I'm delighted by Jim Rovira's comments, although I would not be taken [in] by either Kant or Hume. A slight switch he makes though: I wrote "absolute relativity" [of judgments æsthetical], which he picks up as: "absolutely arbitrary." I was suggesting incommunicability of just what the experience of the "æsthetic" may be, and not agreement as to the object causing, evoking, provoking, whether it is "beautiful" or not. True, Caliban seems to have seen Miranda as beautiful, but not in his league or world [hence to be taken and used by the Trinculos and Stefanos, boorish drunks on the isolated isle]. Perhaps Kant and Hume will have had in mind use per se? As for one male agreeing with another that that "She" is beautiful, what each may respond with, if approaching that Beauty, is an effect of the pheromones exchanged. What is it for the female? Many unknowns. Most are seldom if ever revealed by the XX race. Yeats in exasperation cried out, that his She surely ate a crazy salad with her meat. Maud Gonne had responded to the beauty of a French colonel in intelligence, and more to that is now public. What my comments, to be tiresome, meant, I think: was that there is no commonalty to be found between any two individuals, who have each a history in the realm[s] of the "Æsthetic" from perhaps long before birth itself. Practically, there may economic and pragmatical reasons for agreeing on the nature of any one object, but those reasons may be fundamentally economic in our existence, as Heidegger discusses in the opening of BEING AND TIME. And the elegance of a construction, math or physical, is both simple and terribly complex, beyond anything thought of as "the rational." And that word itself betrays measurement, and measurement per se is basis of human social and technical "beingness," to make a clumsy word. Caveat to the males here: certain pheromones will surely affect, effect, distort and govern our approaches, mental and physical to those objects: the XX creatures as well as ice cream flavors. Jascha K. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > absolutely arbitrary, -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:50:11 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.100 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120620202159.C47AA16BBBE@woodward.joyent.us> I think there's been an element of talking at cross purposes in the discussion, because the term 'aesthetic computing' is ambiguous and has been interpreted in several ways by subscribers to this list. Some have been talking about what could be called 'aesthetically appealing computing'. As Amsler points out, the term could also be interpreted to mean something that I might paraphrase as 'computing for aesthetic purposes'. And some have been talking about what could be called 'the aesthetics of computing'. (While I'm at it, thanks very much, Jim for giving an excellent introduction to the field of aesthetics.) In this connection (because I don't have much to say about the first two possible interpretations of 'aesthetic computing'), I just thought I'd clarify or add to a couple of points in the summary below: > > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:19:50 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.95 aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To: <20120618201642.551E72824AC@woodward.joyent.us> > > > ... > > Amsler's response seemed to confirm much of what had been said previously > about the nature of aesthetic judgments on computer code -- they tend > toward valuing simplicity in the sense that more work for less code is > good, and valuing ease understanding the code (code that was written in > order to be understood, that is). These judgments would be made within the > parameters and limitations of the medium (specific programming language). The first point I wanted to add is that programming languages are also subject to aesthetic judgements, and that where it is possible to choose between programming languages, the choice may be based in part on aesthetic considerations. I'm not sure whether it would be too much to say that an 'aesthetics of computing' would include an aesthetics of programming languages as well as an aesthetics of programming (I think it's probably true to say that a beautiful language is one that facilitates the production of beautiful code), but I wanted to emphasise that the specific programming language is not always a given, and that judgements are not always made within the limitations of a single language. For example, it's possible to compare programming languages by comparing implementations of the same algorithm (both for use value and for aesthetic value). Secondly, while Amsler is right that 'the shortness of the statement is still almost all that is necessary to gain the appellation, "elegant"', there are other considerations involved. For example, recursive algorithms are widely regarded as more elegant than iterative algorithms, and it seems to me that this is not only because they are often more concise, but also because they are closer to being a direct mathematical expression of the solution to the problem at hand (as opposed to a set of steps whose carrying out will solve the problem at hand). Lastly, there are further aesthetic criteria on which a piece of code can be judged, though these may be less central than elegance. Layout should not be forgotten, and I suspect it may turn out to be less trivial than it appears at first sight. There is also the very interesting phenomenon of code that is enjoyed for its own sake, eg. obfuscated C code or Perl poetry, where the idea of 'elegance' has no application that I can see. Best regards Daniel -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 21 20:35:14 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE94316BDB5; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:35:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 16E0416BDA4; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:35:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120621203508.16E0416BDA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:35:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.107 Mellon funding for Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 107. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:07:47 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation We are very pleased to announce that, following a one-year planning grant, the Mellon Foundation has awarded the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) a three-year implementation grant. MESA serves two related purposes: to develop a federation of digital medieval resources, and to provide peer review for scholarly digital projects in all areas of medieval studies. MESA is a federation both in the sense of a community - of scholars, librarians, and students developing and using digital resources - and as a website that federates disparate collections and projects. The website will provide a search across various types of resources spanning the disciplines, geographical areas, and temporal spans that make up the Middle Ages, in the broadest sense. MESA joins with Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online (www.nines.org), 18thConnect (www.18thconnect.org), and the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) project as a node of the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC). ARC is a developing organization, centered at Texas A&M University and directed by Laura Mandell, which serves to provide support for the constituent nodes. This support includes coordination, sustainability, and scalability by providing shared infrastructure - including development of the COLLEX platform and maintenance of a shared catalog including metadata from objects represented in all the nodes. During the second half of 2012, we will be loading the first group of 12 resources into the MESA website. The site will launch with those resources in late 2012. At the same time we will be developing our procedures and policies for including other resources in the site. We have already started compiling a list of projects and collections that we would like to include in MESA in the second phase of the project (after the initial launch). If you have a project that you would like to see included in MESA, please contact us. MESA Co-Directors Dot Porter, Indiana University Bloomington Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University MESA federation blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/ Press Release from NCSU: http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/technology/wms-medieval-online/ -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 22 20:35:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A83428293D; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:35:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3D41C282923; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:35:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120622203520.3D41C282923@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:35:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.108 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 108. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Fishwick (100) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.106 aesthetic computing [2] From: James Rovira (63) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.106 aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:23:56 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.106 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120621203259.EC1AE16BD43@woodward.joyent.us> An interesting aspect of aesthetics in programming, code, and data is that traditional fences constructed to separate purely cognitive constructs (terms such as elegance, minimal, optimal, etc.) from perceptual constructs (beauty that is body-centric, appealing to the eyes, ears, touch) are coming down or at least being traversed. This trend has been occurring for a long time, but with new HCI modalities, the fence (if it ever actually existed) is cracking somewhat. There still remains much beauty in elegant code and recursive algorithms; however, on the horizon we have additional possibilities that allow computer scientists, humanists, and artists to better connect with each other without insisting on sitting on one side of the fence. A situation may arise where the computer scientist will use a word such as elegant to describe something perceptual, or an artist will use a word elegant to describe function and utility. This emerging confluence is encouraging. A couple of interesting examples: * The Minecraft culture which, as one sub-culture, developed their own "code" (e.g., data flow common in digital logic circuitry): http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_Circuits * The resurgence in visualizing "big data". Data is "code" in the information theoretic sense. For example: http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/2012/06/colours-in-movie-posters-since-1914/ What is the use of such artifacts? Some may be useful in education, and in other cases, in a bridge spanning the arts, data, and code. Some may invoke different feelings. For the Minecraft code circuits, they certainly have attracted a large audience, but you have to like Minecraft to become interested in these representations, just as you have to enjoy images and art to find the colour trends in movies of interest. -p On 6/21/2012 4:32 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 106. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Jascha Kessler (39) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.100 aesthetic computing > > [2] From: Daniel Allington (25) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.100 aesthetic computing > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:12:22 -0700 > From: Jascha Kessler > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.100 aesthetic computing > In-Reply-To: <20120620202159.C47AA16BBBE@woodward.joyent.us> > > > I'm delighted by Jim Rovira's comments, although I would not be taken [in] > by either Kant or Hume. A slight switch he makes though: I wrote "absolute > relativity" [of judgments æsthetical], which he picks up as: "absolutely > arbitrary." I was suggesting incommunicability of just what the experience > of the "æsthetic" may be, and not agreement as to the object causing, > evoking, provoking, whether it is "beautiful" or not. True, Caliban seems > to have seen Miranda as beautiful, but not in his league or world [hence to > be taken and used by the Trinculos and Stefanos, boorish drunks on the > isolated isle]. Perhaps Kant and Hume will have had in mind use per se? > As for one male agreeing with another that that "She" is beautiful, what > each may respond with, if approaching that Beauty, is an effect of the > pheromones exchanged. What is it for the female? Many unknowns. Most are > seldom if ever revealed by the XX race. Yeats in exasperation cried out, > that his She surely ate a crazy salad with her meat. Maud Gonne had > responded to the beauty of a French colonel in intelligence, and more to > that is now public. > > What my comments, to be tiresome, meant, I think: was that there is no > commonalty to be found between any two individuals, who have each a history > in the realm[s] of the "Æsthetic" from perhaps long before birth itself. > > Practically, there may economic and pragmatical reasons for agreeing on > the nature of any one object, but those reasons may be fundamentally > economic in our existence, as Heidegger discusses in the opening of BEING > AND TIME. And the elegance of a construction, math or physical, is both > simple and terribly complex, beyond anything thought of as "the rational." > > And that word itself betrays measurement, and measurement per se is basis > of human social and technical "beingness," to make a clumsy word. > Caveat to the males here: certain pheromones will surely affect, effect, > distort and govern our approaches, mental and physical to those objects: > the XX creatures as well as ice cream flavors. > > Jascha K. > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >> absolutely arbitrary, -- Paul Fishwick, PhD Florida Blue Key Distinguished Professor Director, Digital Arts and Sciences CISE Department, CSE 301 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Email: fishwick@cise.ufl.edu Web: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick Blog: http://www.representationz.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:11:25 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.106 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120621203259.EC1AE16BD43@woodward.joyent.us> Many thanks for Jascha and Daniel for their recent posts and their kind words. Kant's discussion of the "subjective universal" is meant to address the possibility that there can't be any commonality of understanding between two individuals about a purely subjective experience, because as human beings we all share the capacity to experience the beautiful, even if our experience of the beautiful is entirely our own (subjective). Kant's entire philosophy is predicated on the isolation of the individual and the possibility of shared understanding, from the categories to what he says about aesthetics. I think that Kant might say that if we can throw a ball to one another from one side of a room to another we are sharing our subjective experiences of time, distance, and speed, so it's not inconceivable that we can share our subjective experiences of beauty as well. Kant (and I think Hume) appeals quite regularly in his argument to our everyday experience and our ways of talking about our experience. While we cannot communicate a purely subjective experience to one who has not shared it, we can communicate about it to someone who has shared that experience or one similar. I apologize for misrepresenting Jascha's point by using the term "absolutely arbitrary" -- that is misleading, and not the same as "absolutely subjective" -- but the focus here to me is whether we are truly completely unique individuals in our responses to aesthetic stimuli. I think that if we were, businesses wouldn't spend as much on demographic studies and on advertising as they do. To stick with the beautiful woman example, two men may have entirely different tastes in women, but if they've both been struck by a woman's beauty, then they have shared a similar experience and can talk about it. Similarly, women may experience attraction to males differently from male attraction to women (they do), and differently from each other, but two women who share that experience can talk about it. On a side note to all, please forgive my heteronormativity here if that is offensive -- the possibilities are endless and I'm just seeking one or two easily understood examples. I'd like to add that Kierkegaard does seem to develop Kantian (as well as Hegelian -- though Hegel's influence is more widely acknowledged) ideas in his own direction, but he does not believe that we human beings are normally single individuals. He argues in The Concept of Anxiety that we -acquire- originality, and his argument throughout Either/Or I and II and Concluding Unscientific Postscript is that we move from a bodily and environmentally determined subjectivity, to an ethical subjectivity (that is based upon universals -- the ethical is a type of subjective universal in Kierkegaard), to a religious subjectivity that recognizes its oneness with all existence in its infinite nature (so is still not an individual), to a religious subjectivity that is finally and purely individual. It is only at this last stage that we truly become individuals, though we might say that the process begins with a leap to an ethical consciousness. One wonders if anyone ever is an individual in Kierkegaard's eyes. Daniel's observation is very useful and can help advance discussion ... we have indeed been mixing together different ways of talking about aesthetic computing. <> I also appreciate his elucidation of different ways of considering aesthetically pleasing code. I keep forgetting the possibility of writing code just for the sake of writing code and not for the sake of accomplishing something, mainly because I'm not used to thinking about coding in that way. I tend to think primarily in terms of code that does something. That's a limitation of mine that extends to (or proceeds from) the way I think about mathematics too. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 22 20:38:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A15722829CE; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:38:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 045EE2829B8; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:37:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120622203814.045EE2829B8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:37:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.109 jobs: cross-over lectureships & studentships with the sciences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 109. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jon Agar (16) Subject: Sloane Collaborative Doctoral Awards: announcement (deadline 29 June) [2] From: alice bell (17) Subject: sessional lectures wanted for science, society and culture (Imperial College) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:40:29 +0000 From: Jon Agar Subject: Sloane Collaborative Doctoral Awards: announcement (deadline 29 June) (fowarded on behalf of Anne Goldgar) Applications are invited for TWO AHRC Collaborative PhD studentships, commencing in autumn 2012, on the theme of Reconnecting Sloane: Texts, Images, Objects. These are part of a large project dealing with the collections and papers of Sir Hans Sloane. 1. Collecting and Correspondence: Sloane’s Papers and Scientific Networks (Supervised by Dr Arnold Hunt, British Library and Dr Anne Goldgar, King’s College London) 2. Putting Nature in a Box: Sloane’s Vegetable Substances (Supervised by Dr Charlie Jarvis, Natural History Museum, and Professor Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary University of London The deadline is very soon -- 29 June -- so please alert promising MA students looking to finish this summer, or others looking for PhD studentships. Please see the attachment for brief details, and follow the links included for further particulars. These can also be found on the websites of the History Department at King's and the School of Geography at QMUL. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:37:16 +0100 From: alice bell Subject: sessional lectures wanted for science, society and culture (Imperial College) Imperial College is launching a new programme for undergraduates, aiming to put science in some context and to develop interdisciplinary approaches to learning and thinking. There are several strands to this programme and the college is looking for some sessional lecturers for 8 week courses on: * Philosophy and the Sciences * Introduction to Ethics * Science and Policy * Science and Visual Culture * Science and Literature Full advert here. Deadline 5th July. https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY&p_svid=36949&p_spid=1582123 Please forward to anyone you think might be interested. Any further queries please contact Giskin Day: giskin.day@imperial.ac.uk. -- Dr Alice R Bell http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 23 22:43:16 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1164028375F; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:43:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A2BD9283747; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:43:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120623224301.A2BD9283747@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:43:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.110 events: models and mechanisms X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 110. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:03:24 +0100 From: Liz Irvine Subject: cfp: Models and Mechanisms Models and Mechanisms: Special Focus on Cognitive Science Thursday 6 - Friday 7 December 2012 Tilburg University, The Netherlands http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/tilps/events/MM2012/ Keynote Speakers: Peter Machamer (HPS, Pittsburgh) Iris van Rooij (Nijmegen, Donders Institute) Andreas Hüttemann (Cologne) Topic: The development of models and the investigation of mechanisms are often deeply related across scientific research, and modelling can play a range of roles in directing research into mechanisms. While recent years have witnessed an increasing amount of interest by philosophers and by scientists alike in the distinctive roles that models and mechanisms play in scientific explanation, many outstanding issues about the relationship between models, investigations of mechanisms and scientific explanation remain. The aim of this workshop is to address some such outstanding issues - paying special attention to practice in the cognitive sciences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): how mechanistic models relate to scientific explanation; whether the models used to investigate mechanisms possess any distinctive properties; how trade-offs in models, such as between simplicity and realism, fit within a mechanistic approach to explanation; how mechanistic modelling contributes to questions of explanation, reduction and scientific realism in specific cases, particularly in the cognitive sciences. Call for papers: Papers are welcomed from researchers across philosophy and science (especially from the cognitive sciences), including papers based on experimental studies that illustrate the relationship between modeling and investigating mechanisms. The conference language is English. Authors are invited to submit an abstract of 100 words and an extended abstract of 1000 words. To submit, please prepare your abstracts for blind review, and save your extended abstract as a PDF file. Then follow this link: Submission System. When logged in, go to the new submission page. Include your 100 words abstract and upload the PDF file of your extended abstract. You will be able to revise your submission any number of times before the deadline (10 September 2012). Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions you may have. Dates and Deadlines:
 10 September 2012: Abstract submission
 12 October 2012: Notification of acceptance
 12 November 2012: Registration deadline
 6-7 December 2012: Workshop [...] Organizers:
 Matteo Colombo , TiLPS – Tilburg,
 Liz Irvine , CIN - Tuebingen
 The conference is generously supported by the NWO Internationalisation grant on Modeling in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2010-2012), awarded to TiLPS. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 26 23:56:02 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CFD282679; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:56:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 37A52282662; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:55:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120626235549.37A52282662@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:55:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.111 jobs at Afeka, Tel Aviv; 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 111. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michal Gishri (13) Subject: Research Position [2] From: Doug Reside (44) Subject: Job: Web programmer, New York Public Library --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:55:06 +0100 From: Michal Gishri Subject: Research Position Research Position for Computational Linguist The Afeka Center for Language Processing is looking for a Computational Linguist (or graduate student) for a part-time position (at least 50% - flexible) in a project involving Human-Machine Interaction via Speech. The focus of the research is on textual analysis of speech recognition results. Requirements: · Courses : NLP, machine learning. · Good programming skills in C. · Familiarity with classical NLP tools and algorithms. · Can start work immediately Please send CVs to: > michalg@afeka.ac.il Subject: Job: Web programmer, New York Public Library The New York Public Library seeks a talented web applications developer to help build and launch a new web-based video archives environment as part of its new research and development unit, NYPL Labs. Us? A small, creative team at the heart of one of the world's great cultural institutions: exploring new technologies, imagining the future of research. You? A maker and experimenter game to help re-imagine a century-old organization. Able to build, test and debug in rapid iterations. Archives? The raw material of research and the building blocks of new knowledge. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is one of the largest and most used archival repositories of video documentation of dance and theater. Thousands of books, documentaries, and even new performances have been created out of our archives. The work? To modernize (and in some cases invent) the mechanisms for discovering and using the Library’s archival video material. The project will begin with prototyping around videos in the Library’s Dance collections. This model collection will lay the foundation for a broader library video service: a cornerstone of the Library's digital future. You’ll work at NYPL’s landmark central branch on 42nd Street as technical lead on an archives project team collaborating with senior curators and librarians. Expect frequent visits to the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and contact with dance historians, choreographers and the wider arts-tech community in New York. Position is grant-funded, temporary for 12 months. Salary range: $70,000-$90,000 based on experience. Sounds like you? Send us your resume and a cover letter that really shows us who you are. Skill set/qualifications: • 2-3 years experience using Javascript and the JQuery library. • 2-3 using server-side scripting languages for building web applications. Ruby or PHP preferred. • Expert level HTML and CSS skills • Bachelors or Masters degree in Library Information Systems, Computer Science, Web Development, Digital Design, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience) is required Preferred: • Expert knowledge of XML and XSLT strongly desired • Some understanding of archival collections (from collection processing, management, or as a researcher) • Familiarity with streaming video and location-specific access restrictions • Familiarity with the API of the commercial video streaming service, BrightCove, a plus. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 26 23:57:14 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9182826C0; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:57:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 094542826AA; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:57:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120626235706.094542826AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:57:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.112 cfp: Emotions in Games X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 112. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:32:49 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: Emotion in Games CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING Special Issue on Emotion in Games http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tac_eig.pdf Computer games research has recently experienced the adoption of its own technological advancements (rich interactivity, 3D graphical visualization and role playing game-style incentive structures) by an increasing number of domains (e-commerce, news reading, web 2.0 services, and human-computer interfaces). The capability of games delivering enhanced user immersion and engagement defines the driving force behind this adoption. Inevitably, games are unique elicitors of emotion and the study of user experience in those environments is of paramount importance for the understanding of gameplay internal mechanics. Analysing, capturing and synthesizing player experience has been a challenging area within the crossroads of cognitive science, psychology, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Additional gameplay input modalities such as 3D acceleration (e.g. Wii), image and speech (e.g. Kinect) enhance the importance of the study and the complexity of player experience. Sophisticated techniques from artificial and computational intelligence can be used to synthesize the affective state of player (and non-player) characters, based on multiple modalities of player-game interaction. Multiple modalities of input can also provide a novel means for game platforms to measure player satisfaction and engagement when playing, without necessarily having to resort to postplay and off-line questionnaires. Adaptation techniques such as complex (emotional and social) agent behaviours can also be used to maximize player’s experience, thereby, closing the affective game loop. In addition to this, procedural content generation techniques may be employed, based on the level of user engagement and interest, to dynamically produce new, adaptable and personalized content. This special issue aims at bringing together contributions from specialists in affective computing, artificial intelligence, user experience research and multi-modal interfaces that will advance the state-of-the-art in player experience research; affect induction, sensing and modelling; and affect-driven game adaptation. Research areas relevant to the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following: • modelling affect in the context of games • artificial and computational intelligence for modelling player experience • cognitive/affective models of player satisfaction/immersion/engagement • analysis of player’s facial expressions, hand and body gestures, body stance, gaze and physiology • speech recognition and prosody analysis of players • mapping low-level cues to affect and emotion • using games to record affective databases • reproducing player affect in the game environment • affective game characters • adaptive learning and player experience • affect-driven procedural content generation • affect expression in games • methods for emotion measurement in games Submissions must not have been previously published, with the exception that substantial extensions of conference papers can be considered. The authors will be required to follow the Author’s Guide for manuscript submission to the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing at: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tac/author. Full manuscripts should be submitted electronically through IEEE’s Manuscript Central: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taffc-cs. Be sure to select “Special Issue on Emotion in Games” as the Manuscript Type, rather than “Regular Paper.” This will ensure that your paper is directed to the special issue editors. IEEE Tools for Authors are available online at: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/information.htm. Inquiries can be directed to toac@computer.org. *Schedule* Submission deadline: August 1, 2012 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2013 Final Manuscripts Due: March 1, 2013 Publication: July/September 2013 *Special issue editors* Georgios N. Yannakakis, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Katherine Isbister, NYU-Poly, USA Ana Paiva, INESC-ID, Portugal Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 26 23:58:16 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9278A282701; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:58:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1799F2826E9; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:58:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120626235809.1799F2826E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:58:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.113 crowdsourcing crime X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 113. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:22:07 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: crowdsourcing crime Those here interested in crowdsourcing will at least be amused by the application thought up by the Metropolitan Police of London, as follows. WM > **Images of suspected London rioters have been uploaded onto a > mobile app by police** > > A total of 2,880 pictures taken during widespread rioting and > looting last August are on Facewatch. At the touch of a button a user can select > a photo and then supply the name and address of that suspect. > > It is hoped more rioters will be caught as a result in this way - > known as crowd-sourcing. A further 2,000 CCTV images are on the app of > suspects in anti-social behaviour cases unrelated to the London riots. > > Met Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley, head of specialist > crime and operations, said: “This is a great opportunity for the public > to help us fight crime and bring those who remain outstanding to > justice. “We need Londoners to browse through the app every week or so > as new images will appear regularly. This is a fantastic way for > Londoners to help us to fight crime.” > > Facewatch can be downloaded for iPhone, Google Android and > Blackberry. > >http://www.london24.com:80/news/crime/london_riots_app_released_to_track_down_suspects_1_1421667 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 27 00:00:18 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B7C2827A1; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DE3A2282791; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120627000011.DE3A2282791@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.114 events: visualisation & the arts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 114. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:11:04 +0000 From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" Subject: EVA London 2012: registration closes 6th July ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS LONDON 2012 Tuesday 10th July - Thursday 12th July 2012 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org REGISTRATION: Last day to register for this year's conference is Friday 6th July 2012 For registration details, keynote speakers and the latest conference programme visit: www.eva-london.org *********************************************************** EVA London 2012 will debate the issues, discuss the trends and demonstrate the digital possibilities in culture, heritage and the arts. If you are interested in new technologies in the cultural sector - if you are an artist, policy maker, manager, researcher, practitioner, or educator - then this conference is for you. Three days of presentations, workshops, demos and exhibition on a spectrum of themes from electronic arts to experiencing history. This year's conference includes sessions on: * Museums in a new world * Seeing data * The place and the digital * Digital art and research * Sound and life * Building the virtual * Visualisation, maps and structures * Digital art and networked culture * Art and performance * Imaging * Digital imaging ** Plus five full sessions featuring live demonstrations ** Please note: as London is also hosting the Olympics this summer, we are suggesting that delegates book their hotel accommodation as soon as possible. A number of hotel rooms have been reserved for EVA London delegates through our accommodation partner innov8 Conference Services. Please find further details of this and other accommodation options at www.eva-london.org If this message was forwarded to you, join our mailing list to receive EVA London announcements (only) directly. Send an email to: listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 28 00:17:33 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B33728415D; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:17:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D43328414F; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:17:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120628001724.7D43328414F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:17:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.115 events: microchipping; digital humanities; text re-use X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 115. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katina Michael (15) Subject: TEDx Presentation I gave on the Social Implications of Microchipping People [2] From: Clare Mills (38) Subject: DHC 2012 - Discounted Registration Ends 30 June [3] From: Gabriel Bodard (30) Subject: seminar: Historical Text Re-use Detection on Perseus Digital Library --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:34:08 +1000 From: Katina Michael Subject: TEDx Presentation I gave on the Social Implications of Microchipping People In-Reply-To: Hi Digital Humanities Members: Some of you might find the following presentation interesting as it brings together a number of research domains. TEDxUWollongong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnghvVR5Evc&feature=player_embedded The talk was a part of a series of talks on medical bionics. More info. here: http://www.uberveillance.com/blog/2012/6/21/the-social-implications-of-microchipping-people.html Cheers, Katina Michael Editor-in-Chief IEEE Technology & Society Magazine http://ieeessit.org/technology_and_society/ Associate Professor School of Information Systems and Technology University of Wollongong http://ro.uow.edu.au/kmichael --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:40:53 +0100 From: Clare Mills Subject: DHC 2012 - Discounted Registration Ends 30 June In-Reply-To: Dear Colleagues, Discounted registration for the Digital Humanities Congress 2012 ends soon. Sign up at http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012 before 30 June to take advantage of our early bird rates. This is a new conference to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. Hosted by the University of Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute the conference will take place from 6 - 8 September 2012. The keynote speakers will be . Professor Andrew Prescott (Head of Department, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London) . Professor Lorna Hughes (University of Wales, Chair in Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales) . Professor Philip Ethington (Professor of History and Political Science, University of Southern California and Co-Director of the USC Center for Transformative Scholarship) Further details can be found on the conference website: http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012 With best wishes, Clare Clare Mills HRI Coordinator Humanities Research Institute University of Sheffield 34 Gell Street Sheffield S3 7QY Tel: 0114 222 9890 Fax: 0114 222 9894 Email: c.e.mills@sheffield.ac.uk Web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri Times Higher Education University of the Year --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:46:43 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: seminar: Historical Text Re-use Detection on Perseus Digital Library In-Reply-To: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2012 Friday June 29th at 16:30 Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Marco Buchler & Gregory Crane (Leipzig), Historical Text Re-use Detection on Perseus Digital Library ALL WELCOME Text re-use detection is about uncovering quotations, paraphrases, allusions, or even analogies and translations. Since quoting never happens by chance but by a positive (agree with an earlier author’s text) or negative (disagree) purpose, we propose to use text re-use techniques for quantitative generation of text re-use graphs and identifying from them hotly quoted passages of a work that are used for scoring it by a "Cultural Heritage GooglePage" technique. 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/wip2012.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 Fri Jun 29 23:13:54 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B1C283269; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:13:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8806828324D; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:13:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120629231318.8806828324D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:13:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.116 data-mining 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. 26, No. 116. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:29:40 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.86 data mining? In-Reply-To: <20120613204802.92845281BD3@woodward.joyent.us> At Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:06:22 +1000, Willard McCarty wrote: > In a forthcoming article in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, the > author says that, > > > By data mining, I mean the activity of fitting a wide variety of > > models to the data in the opportunistic hope of finding one that > > fits well. > > But if this forthcoming article has nailed an important meaning of > the term, then it would be good to have some description of how such > mining is done. This definition borrows terminology common in the machine learning/statistical learning literature. A model is a way of mapping the inputs (independent variables) to the outputs (dependent variables) and can be expressed in software in a variety of ways (including Baysian classifiers, decision trees, support vector machines, and neural networks). And fitting is the process by which a model is tuned to give the correct output for a given input. The description of the process as "opportunistic" is a little pessimistic (or perhaps tongue-in-cheek). In fact there are well-established methods (learning algorithms) for fitting models to data in both supervised and unsupervised learning (such as least squares, clustering, genetic algorithms) and for evaluating the resulting model (such as cross-validation). Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London t: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 j: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li @: lewisrichard s: richardjlewis 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 29 23:15:32 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792BA2832B5; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:15:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 256B72832A4; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:14:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120629231507.256B72832A4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.117 jobs: fellowships at Cork, 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. 26, No. 117. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Brendan Dooley (51) Subject: deadline extended to 1 August for digital arts and humanitiesfellowships in Cork [2] From: Janelle Jenstad (9) Subject: Post-doctoral fellowship with The Map of Early Modern London --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +0200 From: Brendan Dooley Subject: deadline extended to 1 August for digital arts and humanitiesfellowships in Cork University College Cork invites applications for 5 four-year 12,000 EUR doctoral studentships on selected topics with the structured PhD programme in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH). Successful candidates will be registered with the full-time inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme co-ordinated with an all-Irish university consortium. Candidates will pursue their individual research agendas within the program, related to specific project areas, for which they will develop proposals which they provide during the application process. Subject areas: Currently fellowships are available in History, English and Music. See http://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/grep/dah/ for specifics. While applications are open for any project, funding is available for projects related to the following collections within the university library: http://www.earlynewsnet.org/LIBRARY_PROJECTS_WEB/index.htm What is DAH? The ever-evolving developments in computing and their performative and analytical implications have brought about a quantum leap in arts and humanities research and practice. Digital Arts and Humanities is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention at the intersection of computing and information management with the arts and humanities. The DAH Structured PhD programme will create the research platform, the structures, partnerships and innovation models by which fourth-level researchers can engage with a wide range of stakeholders in order to contribute to the developing digital arts and humanities community world-wide, as participants and as leaders. Programme Structure Candidates will complete core, training and career development modules, including main modules shared across the consortium and others institutionally-based. The overall aim of the taught modules are threefold: 1) to introduce students to the history and theoretical issues in digital arts/humanities; 2) to provide the skills needed to apply advanced computational and information management paradigms to humanities/arts research; 3) to provide an enabling framework for students to develop generic and transferable skills to carry out their final research projects/dissertations. Year 1 of the four-year programme includes core and optional graduate education modules delivered in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Maynooth. These modules provide a grounding in essential research skills and transferable skills together with access to specialist topics. In years 2 and 3 work on PhD research projects is supplemented with access to elective modules. Year 3 features practical placements in industry, academic research environments or cultural institutions. University College Cork has a strong track record in Digital Humanities and has been a pioneer in the development of digital tools for language study and historiography. The College of Arts (CACSSS) has particular strengths in European and Irish history, Renaissance Studies, English language and literature, Music and musicology, among others. For further information contact: Brendan Dooley Professor of Renaissance Studies b.dooley@ucc.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:34:19 -0700 From: Janelle Jenstad Subject: Post-doctoral fellowship with The Map of Early Modern London The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) project invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship valued at $32,500 per year for up to two years. The successful applicant will be expected to join the project on site in Victoria, BC, and work closely with the project director, developers, and research assistants in the next phase of MoEML's development. He or she will take a leading role in the ongoing identification of all the features of the Agas Map (Civitas Londinum); textual and critical work on the map; ongoing work on the encyclopedia of early modern streets and sites; and the editing, markup, annotation, and creation of a critical apparatus for a versioned edition of the 1598, 1603,1633, and modern texts of John Stow's A Survey of London. The successful applicant will also be encouraged to work on related projects, to bring his or her particular research interests to MoEML, and to help shape MoEML's future. Applicants need to have a strong background in the literature of early modern London, preferably in textual criticism, drama, chronicle histories, civic literature, pageantry, and/or the geohumanities. Facility with literary computing and some knowledge of TEI are essential. Experience with editing, historical or literary GIS, and databases is desirable. MoEML is an established project with SSHRC funding and ongoing technical support from the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria. MoEML is directed by Janelle Jenstad (Department of English, University of Victoria), and overseen by advisory and editorial boards. The summary from MoEML's SSHRC Insight Grant can be found at mapoflondon.uvic.ca/SSHRC2012.htm http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/SSHRC2012.htm . The University of Victoria is committed to providing an environment that protects and promotes the human rights of all persons and and affirms the dignity of all persons. MoEML is committed to honouring the Collaborators' Bill of Rights. Enquiries and applications may be sent to MoEML via Janelle Jenstad at jenstad@uvic.ca. Electronic application packages should include a statement of relevant experience, a full CV, reference letters (or the names of referees), and links to the applicant's projects and publications. All applications received by July 17, 2012 will be acknowledged. Interviews will be conducted via Skype the following week. (Link to job posting at MoEML site http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/opportunities.htm .) ********************************************** Dr. Janelle Jenstad, Associate Professor, English, UVic 250-721-7245; CLE C327 General Editor, The Map of Early Modern London Assistant Coordinating Editor, Internet Shakespeare Editions _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 29 23:34:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BF0283597; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:34:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5897528357E; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:34:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120629233419.5897528357E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:34:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.118 an invitation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 118. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:10:57 +0800 From: Willard McCarty Subject: going in all directions at once When I entered the digital humanities scene (then called "computing and the humanities", when juxtaposing them was about all one could say) it was possible to think that a fairly good list of most of those involved could be compiled. When I started to do things in the field, it was possible to think that with assiduous work and help one could compile a reasonably complete account of the kinds of things going on, with numerous examples, very likely the most important ones. Now, it seems to me, one cannot hope to keep a handle on the kinds of things, indeed to know what they are. Having anything like a stable categorisation scheme that lasts more than a few days is out of the question. It seems obvious to me that saying what the digital humanities is (or, less ambitiously, what the digital humanities are) is not just impossible but wrong-headed. It is a multiplying colony of activities. Given this (if you'll grant me the characterisation), it seems to me especially important that those new to this group and to others with more or less the same objective, report on or ask about aspects of what they're interested in, even doing, however tentative. In principle we know that there's no end to the variety. Some of what pops up will turn out to be game-changing. Hence my invitation to new members to say what you're about. Lurking remains the primary mode of being here, and that's fine, but active participation of is the stuff of life. Sitting here in the Perth airport, with the signs telling me that there are no limits to what can be done, no limit to the opportunities, may have provoked this note, but however temporary the partial truth brought about by iron mining, it is an unconstrained, rampant truth of scholarly conversation. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 Jun 29 23:38:37 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A962C28362B; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:38:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AA845283619; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:38:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120629233829.AA845283619@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:38:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.119 events: summer schools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 119. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Georg Vogeler (25) Subject: Summer School "Digital Editing – Advanced Methods and Technologies" [2] From: Elisabeth Burr (150) Subject: "Culture & Technology" - 3rd European Summer School in DigitalHumanities, 23 - 31 July 2012 University of Leipzig --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:39:49 +0200 From: Georg Vogeler Subject: Summer School "Digital Editing – Advanced Methods and Technologies" Dear List Members, the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) organized together with the Institut für Germanistik of TU Chemnitz a Summer School *Digital Editing – Advanced Methods and Technologies* It takes place 8. – 12. October 2012 in Chemnitz (Germany) The school adresses scholars working on any kind of edition (historical, philological) who have already a basic experience in the concepts and standard technologies of digital editing. It deals with sofwarte tools and more complex coding schemes and techniques zu preparte and in particular publish their editions. The teaching language will be German. Further informations (progam, modalities of inscription) can be found at http://www.i-d-e.de/school1210 We are looking forward to your inscriptions -- Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenchaften - Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz http://www.uni-graz.at/zim/ Merangasse 70 - A - 8010 Graz Tel. +43 316 380 8033 Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. http://www.i-d-e.de Association Paléographique Internationale - Culture . Ecriture . Société (APICES) http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm International Center for Archival Reserach (ICARus) http://www.icar-us.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:20:29 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: "Culture & Technology" - 3rd European Summer School in DigitalHumanities, 23 - 31 July 2012 University of Leipzig (Apologies for cross-posting, but feel free to forward!) After having concluded the evaluation of the numerous applications which reached us before the deadline a few places and bursaries are still available. Therefore we publish this last call. We will accept applications for these places and bursaries until the 10th of July 2012. Please note, participation at the school is not possible without an invitation letter which will be send out only if the results of the evaluation of an application are positive. Applicants are asked to inform themselves if a certain workshop is still available. 3rd European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" , 23 - 31 July 2012, University of Leipzig http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the Summer School fees could be reduced considerably and a bursary scheme could be put into place. The Summer School is directed at 75 participants from all over Europe and beyond. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, and post docs from the Humanities, Engineering or Computer Sciences, as well as academics, librarians and technical assistants who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries or archives, or wish to do so are its target audience. The Summer School aims to provide a stimulating environment for discussing, learning and advancing knowledge and skills in the application of computer technologies to the Arts and Humanities, in libraries, archives, and similar fields. The Summer School seeks to integrate these activities into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, where questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds are asked. It further aims to provide insights into the complexity of humanistic data and the challenges the Humanities present for computer science and engineering and their further development. The Summer School takes place across 9 whole days. The intensive programme consists of workshops, daily public lectures, regular project presentations, poster sessions and two round tables. The workshops while focusing on essential questions such as XML Markup, the structuring of documents, the investigation and categorisation of style via statistical methods and the analysis of corpora, address also Art History from the perspective of Digital Humanities, and provide an introduction to the employment of virtual research infrastructures in Humanities research. A workshop will demonstrate how the interdisciplinary investigation of multimodal communication between humans and between humans and machines produces not only a new theory of multimodal human / machine communication, but also new theory and praxis of the annotation of video, audio, prosody, syntax and pragmatics which plays such a central role in the remedialisation of our cultural heritage. Likewise a workshop will be offered on project management, which is becoming increasingly important as a result of the tendency towards project-centred research in the interdisciplinary Digital Humanities. The results of the individual workshops will be aired in plenary sessions. * Computing Methods applied to DH: XML Markup and Document Structuring (fully booked) * Stylometry: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Literary Texts * Query in Text Corpora * Art history and the critical analysis of corpora * Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of multimodal human-human / human-machine communication * TextGrid – a virtual research environment for the Humanities * Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management (fully booked) Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Information on how to apply for a place in one of the workshops and for a bursary can be found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/. A bursary can only be granted if the person in question is present at the school all through the nine days. Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and who submit a qualified project description. Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non-specialists can follow, and to support what they hope to learn from the summer school with good arguments. The call for the Summer School should also be intended as a call for project presentation. We expect above all the young scholars who participate in the Summer School to present their projects. Next to projects of the participants of the Summer School advanced institutional and / or funded projects by scholars from the Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering will be presented. Please note that we are planning to publish the projects which have been selected for presentation together with the lectures given by our internationally renowned specialists. The public lectures will seek to handle questions posed by the development of Virtual Research Infrastructures for the Humanities from the perspective of the Humanities, their own ways of working and their specific types of data. The Summer School will feature also two round table discussions focusing on Virtual Research Infrastructures which serve the Digital Humanities, and on Digital Humanities Summer Schools. All questions regarding the programme of the Summer School, the selection of the participants as well as the selection of projects for eventual publication are handled by the international scientific committee of the European Summer School composed of: · Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow (Great Britain) · Alex Bia, Universidad Miguel Hernández in Elche (Spain) · Dino Buzzetti, Università di Bologna (Italy) · Elisabeth Burr, Universität Leipzig (Germany) · Laszlo Hunyadi, University of Debrecen (Hungary) · Jan Rybicki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraków (Poland) · Corinne Welger-Barboza, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) For all relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. We're pleased to announce that http://dhsi.org/ DHSI (4-8 June 2012), http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/ DH@Oxford (2-6 July 2012), http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ DH@Leipzig (23-31 July 2012), and http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/ DHWI (7-11 Jan 2013) are working together to establish a network of DH training institutes. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 29 23:39:45 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A01283677; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:39:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 756ED28365D; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:39:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120629233941.756ED28365D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:39:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.120 new publication: computationally intensive research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 120. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:00:50 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences A Report on the Experiences of First Respondents to the Digging Into Data Challenge http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub151 June 12, 2012. Today, at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Washington, DC, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) released One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This report culminates two years of work by CLIR staff involving extensive interviews and site visits with scholars engaged in international research collaborations involving computational analysis of large data corpora. These scholars were the first recipients of grants through the Digging into Data program, led by the NEH, who partnered with JISC in the UK, SSHRC in Canada, and the NSF to fund the first eight initiatives. The report introduces the eight projects and discusses the importance of these cases as models for the future of research in the academy. Funded by NEH Cooperative Agreement HC-50007-10. -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 1 23:40:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076A6282EFC; Sun, 1 Jul 2012 23:40:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3CD1F282EE3; Sun, 1 Jul 2012 23:40:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120701234029.3CD1F282EE3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 23:40:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.121 cfp: data curation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 121. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:10:46 -0500 From: Lauren Coats Subject: Data Curation CFP In-Reply-To: <20120629233941.756ED28365D@woodward.joyent.us> This call for papers related to data curation (attached and pasted below) -- for a special issue of the new, online /Archive Journal /(archivejournal.net) -- may be of interest to those on this list. Please feel free to forward to colleagues who may be interested. Note that the editors are looking for submissions from a wide range of disciplines and professional positions. * * * Call for Proposals for /Archive/ Journal Special Issue* The editorial board of /Archive//Journal/ (archivejournal.net http://archivejournal.net/ )is pleased to announce an upcoming issue, "Curating the Digital, Curating the Analog," which will explore how data curation shapes and informs library, archival, scholarly, and pedagogical practices. Understood as the "active and ongoing management of data through its life cycle of interest and usefulness to scholarly and educational activities" (Data Curation Education Program, http://cirss.lis.illinois.edu/CollMeta/dcep.html), data curation encompasses selection and appraisal, description and representation, preservation, and the work of making a resource usable and repurposable. How we store, represent, and provide access to data affects not only those in the world of libraries, archives, and museums, but also scholars, faculty, students, and artists across the disciplines. What role does data play in fields such as the digital humanities, or media studies? How does data curation involve or affect scholarly production, or approaches to pedagogy? Guest editors Patricia Hswe and Erin O'Meara invite submissions on data curation that address new practitioner roles, new types of scholarship, new storage needs, and new stories that are fast emerging. Possible topics for contributions include - but are not limited to - the following: * Data and archives** * Data curation practices and challenges** * Curation of born-digital materials** * Humanities data curation issues and practices (including management of data for humanities projects)** * Data curation program development** * Legacy data** * Digital forensics** * Curating a mixed media collection (e.g., print and digital)** * Donors and digital donations** * Ethnographic methods and data curation** * Creator attitudes toward, or perceptions of, data curation** * New roles for librarians, archivists, curators, and researchers** * Description methods and data models (e.g., metadata, finding aids, ontologies, etc.)** * Tools, applications, platforms** We invite proposals for contributions of 5000-7000 words; shorter essays (2000-4000 words) about new tools or services are also welcome. We encourage proposals that include multimedia components (video, image, or sounds in standard formats), as well as multi-modal or experimental formats; please email the editors with any questions about submissions in alternative formats. An open access, peer-reviewed journal, /Archive Journal /seeks content that speaks to its diverse audience of librarians, scholars, archivists, and technologists (http://archivejournal.net/journal/home/about/). Authors interested in submitting to this special issue of /Archive Journal/ should send a 250-word abstract about their contribution and a 1-page CV to Patricia Hswe (Digital Collections Curator, Penn State University Libraries) at patricia.hswe@gmail.com and to Erin O'Meara (Archivist, Gates Archive) at omeara.erin@gmail.com by *Monday, July 30.* *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1341115934_2012-07-01_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_23029.2.pdf -- laurencoats editor, /archive journal/ assistantprofessor departmentof english | allen 260 louisiana state university | baton rouge, la 70803 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 23:42:13 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D0C282FA3; Sun, 1 Jul 2012 23:42:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 54EA8282F8E; Sun, 1 Jul 2012 23:42:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120701234206.54EA8282F8E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 23:42:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.122 events: art; memory X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 122. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (49) Subject: Memory of the World [2] From: Willard McCarty (15) Subject: International Symposium on Electronic Art 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:39:37 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Memory of the World The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation 26-28 September 2012, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada UNESCO proposes to organize an international conference from 26 to 28 September 2012 in Vancouver (BC) Canada, to explore the main issues affecting the preservation of digital documentary heritage, in order to develop strategies that will contribute to greater protection of digital assets and help to define an implementation methodology that is appropriate for developing countries, in particular. The conference will bring together professionals from the heritage sectors, as well as a range of government, IT industry, rightsholders and other stakeholders to assess current policies in order to propose practical recommendations to ensure permanent access to digital documentary heritage. Although knowledge is today primarily created and accessed through digital media, it is highly ephemeral and its disappearance could lead to the impoverishment of humanity. Despite the adoption of the UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage in 2003, there is still insufficient awareness of the risks of loss of digital heritage. Digital information has economic value as a cultural product and as a source of knowledge. It plays a major role in national sustainable development as, increasingly, personal, governmental and commercial information is created in digital form only. But digitized national assets also constitute an immense wealth of the countries concerned and of society at large. The disappearance of this heritage will engender economic and cultural impoverishment and hamper the advancement of knowledge. Ensuring digital continuity of content requires a range of legal, technological, social, financial, political and other obstacles to be overcome. It is hoped that the Conference will lead to: --the launch of specific initiatives related to digital preservation and to the fostering of access to documentary heritage through digitization; --the upgrading or revision of the UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage; --the identification of the legal frameworks that would facilitate long-term digital preservation; --the agreement on the promotion or development of exchange standards; --the definition of the respective roles of professions, academics, industry and governments in addressing various issues and of a model for their cooperation. For more information see: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/events/calendar-of-events/events-websites/the-memory-of-the-world-in-the-digital-age-digitization-and-preservation/ -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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, 01 Jul 2012 18:13:07 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: International Symposium on Electronic Art 2013 The International Symposium on Electronic Art http://www.isea2013.org/ ISEA2013 Sydney : Resistance is Futile : Open Call for Artwork ISEA2013 have announced their open call for artwork from individual and International artists or organisations wishing to present work in association with ISEA2013. The deadline for this call is Monday, 6th August 2012. The call for papers, panels and workshops will be announced shortly. -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 Jul 3 20:13:33 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3AF285F24; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 20:13:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27C45285F15; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 20:13:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120703201325.27C45285F15@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 20:13:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.123 jobs: postdoc at Victoria, BC (not 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. 26, No. 123. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:28:37 +0100 From: Virginia Knight Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.117 jobs: fellowships at Cork, London In-Reply-To: <20120629231507.256B72832A4@woodward.joyent.us> The title of this post is misleading. The second of these jobs is about London, but not based there - rather, it's in British Columbia. Virginia Knight On 30/06/2012 00:14, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 117. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Brendan Dooley (51) > Subject: deadline extended to 1 August for digital arts and > humanitiesfellowships in Cork > > [2] From: Janelle Jenstad (9) > Subject: Post-doctoral fellowship with The Map of Early Modern London > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:39:22 +0200 > From: Brendan Dooley > Subject: deadline extended to 1 August for digital arts and humanitiesfellowships in Cork > > > University College Cork invites applications for 5 four-year 12,000 EUR > doctoral studentships on selected topics with the structured PhD programme > in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH). Successful candidates will be > registered with the full-time inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme > co-ordinated with an all-Irish university consortium. Candidates will > pursue their individual research agendas within the program, related to > specific project areas, for which they will develop proposals which they > provide during the application process. > > Subject areas: > > Currently fellowships are available in History, English and Music. See > http://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/grep/dah/ for specifics. While > applications are open for any project, funding is available for projects > related to the following collections within the university library: > http://www.earlynewsnet.org/LIBRARY_PROJECTS_WEB/index.htm > > What is DAH? > > The ever-evolving developments in computing and their performative and > analytical implications have brought about a quantum leap in arts and > humanities research and practice. Digital Arts and Humanities is a field of > study, research, teaching, and invention at the intersection of computing > and information management with the arts and humanities. > > The DAH Structured PhD programme will create the research platform, the > structures, partnerships and innovation models by which fourth-level > researchers can engage with a wide range of stakeholders in order to > contribute to the developing digital arts and humanities community > world-wide, as participants and as leaders. > > Programme Structure > > Candidates will complete core, training and career development modules, > including main modules shared across the consortium and others > institutionally-based. The overall aim of the taught modules are threefold: > 1) to introduce students to the history and theoretical issues in digital > arts/humanities; 2) to provide the skills needed to apply advanced > computational and information management paradigms to humanities/arts > research; 3) to provide an enabling framework for students to develop > generic and transferable skills to carry out their final research > projects/dissertations. > > Year 1 of the four-year programme includes core and optional graduate > education modules delivered in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Maynooth. These > modules provide a grounding in essential research skills and transferable > skills together with access to specialist topics. In years 2 and 3 work on > PhD research projects is supplemented with access to elective modules. Year > 3 features practical placements in industry, academic research environments > or cultural institutions. > > University College Cork has a strong track record in Digital Humanities and > has been a pioneer in the development of digital tools for language study > and historiography. The College of Arts (CACSSS) has particular strengths > in European and Irish history, Renaissance Studies, English language and > literature, Music and musicology, among others. > > For further information contact: > > Brendan Dooley > Professor of Renaissance Studies > b.dooley@ucc.ie > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:34:19 -0700 > From: Janelle Jenstad > Subject: Post-doctoral fellowship with The Map of Early Modern London > > > The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) project invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship valued at $32,500 per year for up to two years. The successful applicant will be expected to join the project on site in Victoria, BC, and work closely with the project director, developers, and research assistants in the next phase of MoEML's development. He or she will take a leading role in the ongoing identification of all the features of the Agas Map (Civitas Londinum); textual and critical work on the map; ongoing work on the encyclopedia of early modern streets and sites; and the editing, markup, annotation, and creation of a critical apparatus for a versioned edition of the 1598, 1603,1633, and modern texts of John Stow's A Survey of London. The successful applicant will also be encouraged to work on related projects, to bring his or her particular research interests to MoEML, and to help shape MoEML's future. Applicants need to have a strong background in the literatu > re of early modern London, preferably in textual criticism, drama, chronicle histories, civic literature, pageantry, and/or the geohumanities. Facility with literary computing and some knowledge of TEI are essential. Experience with editing, historical or literary GIS, and databases is desirable. > > MoEML is an established project with SSHRC funding and ongoing technical support from the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria. MoEML is directed by Janelle Jenstad (Department of English, University of Victoria), and overseen by advisory and editorial boards. The summary from MoEML's SSHRC Insight Grant can be found at mapoflondon.uvic.ca/SSHRC2012.htm http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/SSHRC2012.htm . > > The University of Victoria is committed to providing an environment that protects and promotes the human rights of all persons and and affirms the dignity of all persons. MoEML is committed to honouring the Collaborators' Bill of Rights http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/offthetracks/part-one-models-for-collaboration-career-paths-acquiring-institutional-support-and-transformation-in-the-field/a-collaboration/collaborators%E2%80%99-bill-of-rights/ . > > Enquiries and applications may be sent to MoEML via Janelle Jenstad at jenstad@uvic.ca. Electronic application packages should include a statement of relevant experience, a full CV, reference letters (or the names of referees), and links to the applicant's projects and publications. All applications received by July 17, 2012 will be acknowledged. Interviews will be conducted via Skype the following week. (Link to job posting at MoEML site http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/opportunities.htm .) > > ********************************************** > Dr. Janelle Jenstad, Associate Professor, English, UVic > 250-721-7245; CLE C327 > General Editor, The Map of Early Modern London > Assistant Coordinating Editor, Internet Shakespeare Editions > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > -- Dr. Virginia Knight, Senior Technical Researcher IT Services R&D / ILRT Tel: +44 (0)117 331 4385 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.virginiaknight.org.uk/ IT Services R&D/ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk Volley: http://volley.blogs.ilrt.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 3 20:18:07 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877B7285FE8; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 20:18:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 72705285FC6; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 20:17:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120703201759.72705285FC6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 20:17:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.124 new publications: Scholarly Publishing; Reading by Numbers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 124. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (38) Subject: new publication: Reading by Numbers [2] From: UTP Journals (62) Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43.4, July 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:03:48 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Reading by Numbers Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field Katherine Bode Anthem Press ISBN 9780857284549 July 2012 An exploration of the critical potential of digital humanities and quantitative methods to produce new knowledge about literary and cultural history. ‘Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ proposes and demonstrates a new digital approach to literary history, and is the first book to use data mining, visualisation and modelling to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By extracting and analysing information from the most comprehensive online bibliography of a national literature – ‘AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource’ – this study reveals hitherto unrecognised trends that refigure conceptions of Australian literary and cultural history in its transnational context. The range of issues examined is broad, and includes trends and cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, the publishing of Australian literature, the relationships between different fictional forms, the formation and transformation of the literary canon, and the relationship of Australian literature to other-national literatures. The work’s data-rich approach revises earlier arguments in literary studies – based on anecdote and theory – and generates new ways of writing about literature and publishing. More broadly, in demonstrating the innovative ways in which the growing number of humanities digital archives can be mined to generate new and different types of knowledge, this book presents a new direction and scope for digital humanities research. For more information see: http://www.anthempress.com/index.php/subject-areas/featured-product-international/reading-by-numbers.html?SID=eprdhiad64mbkv5bdhlv77aa61 -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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, 3 Jul 2012 19:36:06 +0100 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43.4, July 2012 Now available online… Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 43, Number 4, July 2012 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/q48333208168/ This issue contains: Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication Kathleen Fitzpatrick Debates about open-access scholarly publishing often focus on the costs of scholarship, whether costs incurred by publishers in producing books and journals or costs faced by libraries in acquiring those publications. Taking those costs as the centre of such discussions often results in an impasse, as the financial realities of publishing—particularly within disciplines that are less well-funded than STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)—seem to present an insurmountable obstacle to greater openness. What if, however, we were to refocus the discussion on values rather than costs? How might such a shift in focus lead us to think differently about the motives and benefits involved in scholarly communication, and how might this lead us to recognize the generosity that keeps the engine running? http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/28753477328220g1/?p=bfff861f97ad402084ff85290d248732&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.347 The Price of University Press Books: 2009–2011 Albert N. Greco, Robert M. Wharton, Falguni Sen Drawing on the data collected by Yankee Book Peddler, this article analyses the average prices and title output of books published by university presses and commercial scholarly and professional publishers in 2009, 2010, and 2011. The authors also sought to answer a series of questions that have long perplexed the entire university press community: First, are too many scholarly books being published in North America; second, what are the channels of distribution for these books, and have they changed recently; and third, can university presses develop a strategy that will enable them to maintain their role as the pivotal source of substantive scholarly research? http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/b437527663103582/?p=bfff861f97ad402084ff85290d248732&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.363 First among Equals: Robert Recorde and Innovative Publishing in the Sixteenth Century Trevor Lipscombe Publishing is going through a period of tremendous change. The same was true in the sixteenth century. This article explores how the publication of Robert Recorde's The Whetstone of Witte in 1557, in which the equals sign was used for the first time, serves, along with his other mathematical books, as a model for innovation. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/2t4nr7612042763j/?p=bfff861f97ad402084ff85290d248732&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.381 The E-book and Spanish Scientific Publishers in Social and Human Sciences Irene-Sofía Romero-Otero, Elea Giménez-Toledo The purpose of this article is threefold: (1) To study the course of development, approaches, and strategies of Spanish scientific publishers specializing in the humanities and social sciences; (2) to establish a profile of publishers based on their information and attitudes; and (3) to identify the opportunities and challenges which exist for publishers. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty-eight relevant Spanish publishers; their attitudes were observed to be generally cautious, expectant, and in favour of maintaining the status quo, despite all being convinced that the e-book is an element transforming the publishing sector and that, in the near future, both the printed and electronic book will coexist. This study provides information direct from the publishers themselves, offering theorists detailed and accurate insight into the publishing sector and better opportunity to evaluate the impact of publisher attitudes on other agents implicated in the development of the e-book. The study puts on record the first stage of the irruption and consolidation of the e-book in the Spanish academic sector. It also establishes comparisons with publishing sectors of other countries. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/t76w06517u832017/?p=bfff861f97ad402084ff85290d248732&pi=3 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.395 Scientometric Analysis of Nuclear Science and Technology Research Output in Iran Mohammad Reza Davarpanah The main purpose of this study is to evaluate internationally published research productivity and make quantitative and qualitative assessments of the status of nuclear science and technology in Iran. The data have been collected from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) for the years 1990–2010. The results of this work reveal that the Iranian literature on nuclear science and technology has grown exponentially during the study period. The average number of citations per paper is 5.64. Academic institutions are the main source of research productivity. About 93 per cent of the papers are co-authored. Internationally co-authored papers enjoy higher citation rates in comparison with domestic papers. Disciplinary characterization of the Iranian nuclear science and technology research identifies that emphasis is placed on physics and chemistry and that the publications in which the research appears are distributed evenly among a number of scientific fields. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/213056055k4j12h2/?p=bfff861f97ad402084ff85290d248732&pi=4 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.421 A Short Note on Short Notes Stephen K. Donovan This is a short note. It is tightly focused and brief; its message can be rapidly assimilated by the reader. Like Robert Boyle in the seventeenth century, I bemoan the modern focus on lengthier publications, possibly the result of pressure from managers on academics to encourage them to publish long and ‘significant’ papers in leading journals. Yet, the most important paper published in the life sciences during the twentieth century was only two pages long. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/26w67560h5763257/?p=bfff861f97ad402084ff85290d248732&pi=5 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.440 Review Steven E. Gump http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/21155595041300r0/?p=bfff861f97ad402084ff85290d248732&pi=6 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.444 Journal of Scholarly Publishing A must for anyone who crosses the scholarly publishing path – authors, editors, marketers and publishers of books and journals. For more than 40 years, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. The journal combines philosophical analysis with practical advice and aspires to explain, argue, discuss and question the large collection of new topics that continuously arise in the publishing field. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (67) Subject: HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC0 UnCamp Pre-Registration Open [2] From: "Scullard, Susan" (21) Subject: Announcing - Girls & Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections13-14 September 2012 [3] From: Daniel Sonntag (87) Subject: KI 2012: Last Call for Poster and Demo Contributions [4] From: "A. Herzig" (50) Subject: ESSLLI 2012 call for participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 20:23:56 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC0 UnCamp Pre-Registration Open PRE-REGISTRATION NOW OPEN - DUE AUG 1st! HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) UnCamp A 1.5 Day Event Sept 10-11, 2012 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN *HTRC* The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a unique collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. *HTRC Uncamp* The first annual HTRC UnCamp will be held in September 2012 at Indiana University in Bloomington. The UnCamp is different: it is part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting of an un-conference programming format. It has visionary speakers mixed with boot-camp activities and hands-on sessions with HTRC infrastructure and tools. Through the HTRC Data API, attendees will be able to browse and run applications (yours or ours) against the full 2.8M volumes of the public domain corpus of HathiTrust. Bloomington is lovely in September and the IU campus is noted as one of the most beautiful public university campuses in the nation. *Who should attend?* The HTRC UnCamp is targeted to the digital humanities tool developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students. /We anticipate more registrations than our facilities are able to accommodate. We will accept pre-registrations through August 1, 2012, then send invitations to register./ *Registration* The Uncamp will have a minimal registration fee to make the UnCamp as affordable as possible for you to attend. We anticipate registration at $75.00. * Pre-Registration due August 1, 2012 http://d2i.indiana.edu/webforms/htrc-uncamp-pre/ http://d2i.indiana.edu/webforms/htrc-uncamp-pre * HTRC will send invitations to register by August 10, 2012 * Registration and Registration Fee will be due by August 15, 2012 *Travel* We recommend lodging at the Indiana Memorial Union. Participants who plan to fly to the UnCamp should use Indianapolis International Airport IND and shuttle to Bloomington, IN (about 45 minutes). HTRC anticipates funding a small number of travel grants to diversify attendance from within an organization. For more information: http://d2i.indiana.edu/htrc/uncamp2012 Official HTRC website: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc If you have questions regarding the HTRC UnCamp please contact Robert Ping, HTRC Project Manager: or 812 345-1065 (cell). Looking forward to seeing you in Bloomington! Cheers, Beth Plale, HTRC Co-director, Indiana University J. Stephen Downie, HTRC Co-director, University of Illinois -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 NEMA Project Home: http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 08:44:57 +0100 From: "Scullard, Susan" Subject: Announcing - Girls & Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections13-14 September 2012 Girls & Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections Announcing an international interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London. Dates: 13/14th September 2012 Location: King’s College London, Strand Campus This conference seeks to bring together current research exploring the relationship between contemporary girlhood and digital culture, in a transnational frame. Drawing on approaches from the arts, humanities and social sciences the conference will look at how contemporary transformations and transnational interconnections may be challenging existing social and cultural categories, power structures and global hegemonies. The conference will consider the following questions: • What are the key debates in current research on girls, young women and digital culture? • How might a transnational lens raise new questions, and what new ideas does it make thinkable? • Is digital culture global culture? • How does the development of new digital technologies affects notions and experiences of girlhood? • How are girls using new digital technologies? • How do ideas and practices move across national borders? • What effects do transnational interconnections have on girlhood and digital culture? Speakers include: Lisa Nakamura Shani Orgad Kalpana Wilson Jessica Ringrose Rupa Huq Simidele Dosekun Further information about the event can be found at: http://gdc.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ Registration is now open at: http://estore.kcl.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=78&deptid=17&catid=16 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:40:27 +0100 From: Daniel Sonntag Subject: KI 2012: Last Call for Poster and Demo Contributions KI 2012 German Conference on Artificial Intelligence 24-27 September 2012 Saarbrücken, Germany http://www.dfki.de/KI2012/ ============================================== Last Call for Poster and Demo Contributions Submission deadline: July 9, 2012 ============================================== KI 2012 is the 35th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. The technical programme of KI 2012 will comprise paper and poster/demo presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2012 will take place in Saarbrücken, Germany, September 24-27, 2012, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of all aspects on AI. The conference invites significant, original, and previously unpublished research from all areas of AI, its fundamentals, its algorithms, its history, and its applications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Reasoning and Ontologies * Combinatorial Search, Configuration, Design and Deduction * Natural Language Processing, Statistical NLP, Semantics * Planning and Scheduling; Spatial and Temporal Reasoning * Reasoning under Uncertainty, Probabilistic Inferences * Non-Monotonic Reasoning and Default Logics * Constraint Satisfaction, Processing and Programming * Embodied AI: Robotics, Vision and Perception * Intelligent Information Retrieval, Semantic Search, Semantic Web * Evolutionary and Neural Computation * Machine Learning, Computational Learning Theory and Data-Mining * Distributed Problem Solving and Multi-Agent Systems * Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment, AI for Graphics * Game Theory and General Game Playing, Generalized Intelligence * AI for Human-Computer-Interaction and Adaptive Communication * Mobile Solutions with Textile, Semantic and Spatial Media * Augmented Reality, Smart Cities, Smart Traffic, Smart Hardware * Assistance Systems in Living and Working Environments * Software-Engineering, Model Checking and Security in AI * Distributed Computation and Swarm Intelligence * Cognitive Modelling, AI and Psychology * History and Philosophical Foundations of AI * Applications including Logistics, Production and Health Care We especially welcome poster and demo contributions providing novel insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as contributions that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into AI. Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Poster and demo contributions must be submitted in electronic form in PDF format via the EasyChair submission webpage of KI 2012 at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2012 Submitted demo/poster papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 3-4 pages in Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Suitable topics for poster contributions include, but are not limited to: novel, but not yet fully developed ideas that are of interest for a more broad AI audience; implementation techniques and novel interesting benchmark problems; experimental studies; real world applications of AI research; etc. Submissions of demo contributions should be system or tool descriptions that provide some background about the applied AI technologies. We particularly encourage demonstrations that show innovative AI techniques at work and allow for user interaction. Demo contributions may also be submitted by larger research groups as well as commercial organizations. Submitted poster and demo contributions will be subject to peer review, based on standard criteria such as relevance and significance, originality of ideas, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. The papers of accepted poster/demo contributions will be distributed in electronic form at the conference site and count as refereed, but non-archival publication. At least one author of each accepted poster or demo must register for the conference and present the work during the poster and demo session at KI 2012. The poster and demo session will take place after the welcome reception on September 24. Important Dates --------------------------- Submission deadline for poster/demo papers: July 9, 2012 Notification: August 9, 2012 Deadline for camera-ready copy: August 31, 2012 Poster Session: September 24, 2012 Contact --------------------------- Details and updates will be available on the conference web site: http://dfki.de/KI2012 For questions about this Call for Poster and Demo Contributions, please contact: Stefan Woelfl . --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:15:59 +0100 From: "A. Herzig" Subject: ESSLLI 2012 call for participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AT ESSLLI 2012 Meeting: 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) Date: 06-Aug-2012 - 17-Aug-2012 Location: Opole, Poland Meeting URL: http://www.esslli2012.pl Early registration deadline: 15-06-2012 ******************************************************************************** **Meeting Description** For the past 24 years, the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) has been organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. During two weeks, 49 courses and 6 workshops are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks). There will be three evening lectures by Mel Fitting, Jonathan Ginzburg and Adam Przepiorkowski. In 2012, ESSLLI will held in Opole, Poland and will be organized by the University of Opole, Poland. Chair of the program committee is Andreas Herzig, and chairs of the organizing committee are Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska and Janusz Czelakowski. **Summer School Programme** http://www.esslli2012.pl/index.php?id=67 **Online Registration** http://www.esslli2012.pl/index.php?id=68 **Programme Committee** Chair: Andreas Herzig (Université de Toulouse and CNRS) Local co-chair: Anna Pietryga (University of Opole) Area specialists: Language and Computation: - Miriam Butt (Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz) - Gosse Bouma (Groningen University) Language and Logic: - Regine Eckardt (Language and Literature, University of Göttingen) - Rick Nouwen (UiL-OTS, Utrecht University) Logic and Computation: - Natasha Alechina (CS, University of Nottingham) - Andreas Weiermann (Mathematics and Computation, Ghent University) **Organizing Committee** Chair: Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska and Janusz Czelakowski (University of Opole) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 4 20:32:19 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75D8C2847CC; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:32:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D883284797; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:31:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120704203119.2D883284797@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:31:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.126 citation network visualisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 126. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 06:24:20 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Citation Network Visualization for Digital Humanities Quarterly With the aid of an ACH Microgrant (http://www.ach.org/ach-announces-microgrants-winners), Amanda Visconti has tracked "the flow of knowledge in the digital humanities via attention to the citation networks of its articles", using the Digital Humanities Quarterly as a test-case. See http://digitalliterature.net/viewDHQ/ for the results. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 4 20:33:06 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253A9284819; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:33:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3D55128480B; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:33:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120704203300.3D55128480B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:33:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.127 events: Turing; HTRC Uncamp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 127. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (50) Subject: HTRC Uncamp Pre-registration now Open! [2] From: Liesbeth De Mol (81) Subject: Second Call for Papers: Turing in Context II, Brussels, 10- 12 October 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:17:36 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: HTRC Uncamp Pre-registration now Open! In-Reply-To: <1E35782C42FF664D8A65A4B3070ADF652F6081CE@IU-MSSG-MBX110.ads.iu.edu> PRE-REGISTRATION NOW OPEN - DUE AUG 1st! HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp A 1.5 Day Event Sept 10-11, 2012 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN HTRC Uncamp. HTRC is hosting its first annual HTRC UnCamp in September 2012 at Indiana University in Bloomington. The UnCamp is different: it is part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting of an un-conference programming format. It has visionary speakers mixed with boot-camp activities and hands-on sessions with HTRC infrastructure and tools. Through the HTRC Data API, attendees will be able to browse and run applications (yours or ours) against the full 2.8M volumes of the public domain corpus of HathiTrust. Bloomington is lovely in September and the IU campus is noted as one of the most beautiful public university campuses in the nation. Who should attend? The HTRC UnCamp is targeted to the digital humanities tool developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students. We anticipate more registrations than our facilities are able to accommodate. We will accept pre-registrations through August 1, 2012, then send invitations to register. Registration. The Uncamp will have a minimal registration fee to make the UnCamp as affordable as possible for you to attend. We anticipate registration at $75.00. * Pre-Registration due August 1, 2012 http://d2i.indiana.edu/webforms/htrc-uncamp-pre/ http://d2i.indiana.edu/webforms/htrc-uncamp-pre * HTRC will send invitations to register by August 10, 2012 * Registration and Registration Fee will be due by August 15, 2012 Travel. We recommend lodging at the Indiana Memorial Union. Participants who plan to fly to the UnCamp should use Indianapolis International Airport IND and shuttle to Bloomington, IN (about 45 minutes). HTRC anticipates funding a small number of travel grants to diversify attendance from within an organization. For more information: http://d2i.indiana.edu/htrc/uncamp2012 Official HTRC website: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc If you have questions regarding the HTRC UnCamp please contact Robert Ping. Robert Ping, Project Manager Indiana University Data to Insight Center robping@indiana.edu 812 345-1065 (cell) -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org MESA blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:52:24 +0200 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: Second Call for Papers: Turing in Context II, Brussels, 10-12 October 2012 In-Reply-To: <1E35782C42FF664D8A65A4B3070ADF652F6081CE@IU-MSSG-MBX110.ads.iu.edu> Dear all, I hope the following cfp is of interest to some of you, best wishes, Liesbeth. ----------------------------------------------------------- With Apologies for Multiple Postings ------------------------------------------------------------- /Second call for papers/ "Turing in context II" Historical and Contemporary Research in Logic, Computing Machinery and AI www.computing-conference.ugent.be/tic2 10-12 October, 2012 Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium In the spirit of Alan Turing's interdisciplinary research, an international meeting will be held at the Royal Flemish Academy for the Sciences and Arts, exploring recent research into the many directions brought together in his work. This meeting is the second Turing in Context event during the 2012 Turing centennial. The first was held at King's College, Cambridge, 18-19 February 2012. It was an outreach event for the general academic public with invited speakers only. Turing in Context II is a research meeting meant for experts in the fields touched by Turing's contributions to science. TOPICS of the meeting include but are not restricted to: * history and theory of symbolic and physical machines * human and artificial intelligence * logic, computability and complexity We cordially invite contributions in all fields relating to the work and legacy of Alan Turing, both current research continuing Turing's ideas, and historical and philosophical reflections on them. Researchers from areas that Turing worked in but are not listed above, such as pattern formation and cryptography are explicitly encouraged to submit as well. Submissions should be 200-500 words abstracts and should be submitted to EasyChair via the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tic2 Authors of accepted papers will later be invited to send an extended abstract (max. 6 pages) to be reviewed by the programme committee for publication in a volume of the Academy Proceedings Series. A volume of full papers might follow after the conference. TIMETABLE: Deadline Submission of Abstracts: August 15, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 2012 Conference: October 10-12, 2012 KEYNOTES: S. Barry Cooper, "Turing Machines, Embodied Information, and Higher Type Computability" Leo Corry, Turing and the Computational Tradition in Pure Mathematics: The Case of the Riemann Zeta-Function Daniel Dennett, "Turing's gradualist vision: making minds from proto-minds" Marie Hicks, The Imitation Game Writ Large: Thinking about gender, labor, and sexuality in making machines useful. Maurice Margenstern, Universality everywhere and beyond, an epic of computer science Elvira Mayordomo, From Computability to Information Theory Alexandra Shlapentokh, Definability and decidability over function fields of positive characteristic Rineke Verbrugge, Cognitive systems in interaction PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Bill Aspray (University of Texas) Tony Beavers (University of Evansville) Liesbeth De Mol (Ghent University) Luc De Raedt (Leuven University) Pablo Gervas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Antonina Kolokolova (University of Toronto) Benedikt Loewe (University of Amsterdam) David McCarty (Indiana University Bloomington) Erik Myin (Antwerp University) Giuseppe Primiero (Ghent University) Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon University) Mariya Soskova (Sofia University) Jean-Paul van Bendegem (Free University of Brussels) Bart van Kerkhove (Hasselt University) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Liesbeth De Mol, Benedikt Loewe, Giuseppe Primiero, Jean-Paul van Bendegem, Bart van Kerkhove The meeting is sponsored by: Royal Flemish Academy of the Sciences, Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Fund for Scientific Research Flanders, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, VUB. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 5 21:00:25 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFA0284774; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:00:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0583A284765; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:00:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120705210018.0583A284765@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:00:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.128 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 128. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 18:13:10 +0000 From: "Acord, Sophia Krzys" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 26.108 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120622203520.3D41C282923@woodward.joyent.us> After a few weeks away, I wanted to quickly respond to the great comments circulated by others: Willard (26.94) says: “Could we then say that the principle of the two-way traffic between at least some disciplines of the humanities and CS is centred on this concrete actualizing of abstract ideas?” My answer: YES. And, this point brings me to another distinction that I’d like to venture: a difference between the philosophy of aesthetics and the sociology of aesthetics (the latter of which sees aesthetics as located in the interaction with an object, and not purely internal to the object itself). This takes me to Jim’s concluding observation (26.108) that Daniel’s distinction of different ways of thinking about aesthetic computing all nevertheless come down to “writing code”…if even “writing code for the sake of writing code”. I’m struck, here, by the emphasis on “writing”. Could we “build code” instead? Could aesthetic computing give us new analogies for thinking about code creation and interventions? If writing narrative can go hypertext, could code also be non-linear? (NB: these are questions from a non-programmer!) Best to all, Sophia -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 4:35 PM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 5 21:02:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DEC28495F; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:02:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A84C284948; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:02:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120705210218.1A84C284948@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:02:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.129 as head-turning as the Higgs boson? digital bits in a dissertation? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (22) Subject: a question [2] From: Willard McCarty (22) Subject: digital dissertations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:27:37 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a question Here's a question for you, but first the background, from NYTimes.com: > -------------------------------------- > - TOP NEWS - > Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to > Universe > Researchers said they had discovered what looked for all the > world like the Higgs boson, a long-sought particle that > could lead to a new understanding of how the universe began. > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2_20120705 > And so the question(s): how is what we do as important, or more important, than this? If it isn't, how could it become so? What kind of questions would we have to begin asking? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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, 06 Jul 2012 06:57:19 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital dissertations For the MA or PhD degree in the humanities, has anyone worked out possible relationships between traditional prose submissions and work in software with data? Have any dissertations structured in such unconventional ways been approved? Years ago, for an undergraduate degree, I invented a genre I called the "essay-report", which combined the formal properties of the traditional essay and the scientific laboratory report. One PhD student here has arrived more or less at the same format independently. It seems to me that if a dissertation is written on the basis of genuinely experimental work in the digital humanities its format has to reflect that work. Fortunately for us the natural scientists have been at it for quite a long time and so have something to contribute here. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 5 21:03:27 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34CB92849E1; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:03:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E46732849BA; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:03:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120705210320.E46732849BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:03:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.130 events: Chicago Colloquium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 130. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:29:56 -0500 From: Peter Leonard Subject: CFP for the 7th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities andComputer Science The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science ----------------------------------------------------------------- November 17-19, 2012 The University of Chicago – Chicago, Illinois, USA Submission Deadline: September 15, 2012 http://chicagocolloquium.org 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 seventh year running in 2012. 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." DHCS 2011 (Loyola University Chicago) focussed on "Platform and Game Studies." We invite submissions on any research broadly related to Digital Humanities and Computer Science from scholars, researchers, librarians, technologists, and students. We particularly encourage proposals on visualization tools, theories, methodologies and workflows to make sense of Big Data. This year's DHCS is sponsored by The University of Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. Venue ----- The conference will be held at The University of Chicago on its Hyde Park Campus. The University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Colloquium Schedule ------------------- The formal DHCS colloquium program runs Sunday November 18 (all day) through Monday, November 19 (ending mid-afternoon), preceded by optional registration and informal meet-ups on the afternoon of Saturday November 17. The Colloquium consists of 1.5 hour paper panels and two-hour poster sessions, as well as keynote speeches. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions after each panel and in the schedule breaks. There are no plans for parallel sessions. For further details, please see the conference website. Registration Fee ---------------- Attendance for DHCS 2012 is free. All conference participants, however, will be required to register in advance. Details to follow as the conference program is finalized. Submission Format ----------------- We welcome submissions that are either extended abstracts or full papers (8-page maximum, please) in PDF format. We welcome submissions for: Paper presentations (15 and 30 minute presentations) Posters Software demonstrations Performances Pre-conference tutorials/workshops/seminars, and Pre-conference “birds of a feather” meetings This year, we are using the EasyChair software to handle all submissions. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhcs2012 The instructions are simple: Register yourself (you will add co-authors later) Confirm the registration e-mail. Make sure you go back to the main link and sign in. Create a "New Submission". Fill in all appropriate sections. Don't forget to Upload Paper at the end of the form. Submissions will only be accepted at the EasyChair URL above. Should you run into problems, please contact Peter Leonard at pleonard+dhcs@gmail.com Important Dates --------------- Deadline for Submissions: September 15 Notification of Acceptance: October 1 Full Program Announcement: October 22 Registration: October 7-November 17 Informal meet-ups: Saturday November 17 afternoon Colloquium: Sunday, November 18 – Monday, November 19, 2012 Contact/Questions ----------------- Email pleonard+dhcs@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 6 20:08:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C11E284DFD; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:08:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE3CF284DED; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:08:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120706200802.EE3CF284DED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:08:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.131 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 131. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.128 aesthetic computing [2] From: Wendell Piez (69) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.128 aesthetic computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:12:29 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.128 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120705210018.0583A284765@woodward.joyent.us> Kantian aesthetics doesn't view the aesthetic effect created by an object as internal to the object itself: that would be foreign to all of Kant's thought. It begins with the assumption of a purely subjective experience of an aesthetic object and then complicates that assumption with everyday ideas about and feelings about aesthetic objects. So he would not say that an object is "beautiful" on the basis of "objective universal" standards, but that we perceive objects as beautiful because of a "subjective universal" experience of aesthetic objects. If there wasn't some universality (though I don't think "universality" is the best word) among aesthetic experiences, then we could not speak meaningfully to anyone about our experiences of aesthetic objects, which is a counterintuitive assumption. We do that all of the time. The question is how such communication is possible. What's the difference between code that is written and code that is built? Jim R > And, this point brings me to another distinction that I’d like to venture: > a difference between the philosophy of aesthetics and the sociology of > aesthetics (the latter of which sees aesthetics as located in the > interaction with an object, and not purely internal to the object itself). > > This takes me to Jim’s concluding observation (26.108) that Daniel’s > distinction of different ways of thinking about aesthetic computing all > nevertheless come down to “writing code”…if even “writing code for the sake > of writing code”. I’m struck, here, by the emphasis on “writing”. Could we > “build code” instead? Could aesthetic computing give us new analogies for > thinking about code creation and interventions? If writing narrative can go > hypertext, could code also be non-linear? (NB: these are questions from a > non-programmer!) > > Best to all, > Sophia -- James Rovira Associate Professor of English Program Chair of Graduate Humanities *http://tinyurl.com/tumhum* Tiffin University Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety Continuum 2010 http://www.wix.com/jamesrovira/portfolio --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:05:50 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.128 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120705210018.0583A284765@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, I've hesitated until now to contribute anything to this fascinating thread because ... it is so fascinating. But it seems like a good place to jump in. On 7/5/2012 5:00 PM, Sophia wrote: > This takes me to Jim’s concluding observation (26.108) that Daniel’s > distinction of different ways of thinking about aesthetic computing > all nevertheless come down to “writing code”…if even “writing code > for the sake of writing code”. I’m struck, here, by the emphasis on > “writing”. Could we “build code” instead? Could aesthetic computing > give us new analogies for thinking about code creation and > interventions? If writing narrative can go hypertext, could code also > be non-linear? (NB: these are questions from a non-programmer!) Of course those who know some programming will appreciate that much code already is non-linear, at least in languages in which the control flow of the program does not correspond to the order of instructions given. (And even some in which it largely does, at least insofar as they support function definitions, subroutines etc.) Sort of like lyrics to a song with a refrain, in which the refrain is not written out on the page every time, but included by reference. (Except our songs have many refrains, each of which might be called at any time.) Plus, there are indeed languages that one programs ("writes in") by manipulating non-linguistic symbols such as icons in a graphic display. But what Sophia's remark importantly reveals is that our analogies are constitutive, and may hide how we're not necessarily talking about the same thing at all when we talk about aesthetics. Maybe we can agree where we are starting -- questions regarding what's beautiful and regarding aspects of beauty such as elegance, surprise, clarity, pattern -- some of which might play against each other, therefore making for different kinds of beauty in their variations and combinations. But then take us into the topic -- are we talking about the beauty of an algorithm or its expression, or beauty in the aspects of code such as variable or function names that get compiled away (they are seen, importantly, by the coders but not "seen" by the machine, which is blind), or beauty in the computer language itself, or beauty in what it does or what it makes...? All of the above, I think. Add to this that this now takes place, typically, in the midst of a welter and confusion of extraneous noise (what kind of widgets do you have running on your desktop?), none of which ought to matter but all of which does, to the perceiving subject, and it all becomes more than we can encompass in a simple formula. If there were a formula for beauty, wouldn't we have found it? But beauty is not in formula -- though it may sometimes be in a guarded, tentative, incidental and momentary *relation* to formula or a formula. Order on the edge of chaos. Beauty is enchanted by order, which betrays it. Early in the thread Jim R suggested we would have to learn to talk in code before we could generalize about an aesthetics of code. But we talk in code all the time, as you know if you've ever listened to a doctor or lawyer or musician or long-distance trucker at work. Just as Jim suggested, this is actually revealing. Every code has its own aesthetics (what's your 20, driver?), and those aesthetics become the context for another aesthetics of variation (I'm northbound just past the 90-mile yardstick). It isn't just about communication and beauty, as if these were two separate things. It's about the communication of beauty and the beauty of communication. A code doesn't just have an aesthetic: it is an aesthetic. Regards, Wendell -- ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 6 20:11:19 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1E7284EAE; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:11:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 335E0284E9A; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:11:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120706201111.335E0284E9A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:11:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.132 jobs: PhD studentship; Jobs Slam at DH2012 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 132. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bernd Carsten STAHL (25) Subject: PhD studentship in Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT [2] From: "Stefan Sinclair, Prof" (17) Subject: ACH Jobs Slam at the AGM --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:46:48 +0100 From: Bernd Carsten STAHL Subject: PhD studentship in Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT Greetings, We are inviting applications for a PhD studentship in the area of Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT. The studentship covers a stipend (£13,770 p.a.) and tuition fee costs. Closing date for applications is 30 July and starting date will be 01 October 2012. More information is available here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AET363/phd-studentship/ Please contact me for any queries. Bernd Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Director, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility De Montfort University Faculty of Technology, Department of Informatics The Gateway Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK +44 116 207 8252 http://www.tech.dmu.ac.uk/~bstahl/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 05:46:30 +0000 From: "Stefan Sinclair, Prof" Subject: ACH Jobs Slam at the AGM Dear colleagues, The ACH will again be organizing a Jobs Slam during its annual general meeting at the DH2012 Conference in Hamburg (July 19th at 12:30pm). 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 a message to Stefan.Sinclair@mcgill.ca 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! Stéfan -- Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities Office 341, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, McGill University 688 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1 Tel. 514-398-4984 http://stefansinclair.name/ (Twitter: @sgsinclair) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 6 20:12:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48F8284EF1; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:12:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C88B284EE6; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:12:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:12:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 133. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 14:45:31 +0100 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Should I quit? A bit of a personal post, I know, but still. I received my doctorate in 2009 and have been trying to get a job ever since. One problem I had was the lack of a publication record, as I wasn't told how important this was until towards the end of my PhD. The other problem is that I've had to work ever since, so finding the time and resources to research anything is very difficult too. I now only have two publication credits to my name, and I am honestly considering giving up. Was it all a waste of time? Tell me what you think. - Alexander _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 6 20:14:05 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40C3284F66; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:14:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DF25284F59; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:13:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120706201359.0DF25284F59@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:13:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.134 events: DH Congress at Sheffield X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 134. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:11:59 +0100 From: Michael Pidd Subject: Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Conference Programme I'm pleased to inform you that the conference programme for the Digital Humanities Congress is now available. You can view the programme here: http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012 I would be grateful if you could circulate this amongst any interested colleagues. With best wishes Mike -- Michael Pidd HRI Digital Manager Humanities Research Institute University of Sheffield 34 Gell Street Sheffield S3 7QY Tel: 0114 222 6113 Fax: 0114 222 9894 Email: m.pidd@sheffield.ac.uk Web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri Times Higher Education University of the Year _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 9 20:26:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A62B2849A2; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:26:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4590E284946; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:26:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120709202617.4590E284946@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:26:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.135 should I quit X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 135. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel O'Donnell (111) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? [2] From: James Rovira (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? [3] From: Andrew Prescott (32) Subject: Should I Quit? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:23:46 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? In-Reply-To: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> I'm not sure anybody can speak to somebody else's experience in this regard. I believe, for example, that I found my PhD experience to be intrinsically "worth it," though it is possible that my recollection is being clouded by the fact that I got a job in academia (on the interview that I had decided in advance was going to be my last application for a university job--I'd been offered a position in advertising earlier the same week that I interviewed here). Moreover, not all academic jobs are equally "worth it," even if you get one. I've taught in some borderline places and I certainly know people who left institutions (in a few cases without any other job waiting for them) because working in the institution they were in was worse for them than not working in academia at all. And there are also a lot of unhappy people in academia (see the comments to Katie Beswick's blog in the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2012/jun/18/academia-not-stressful-for-me?commentpage=all#start-of-comments), in addition to many happy ones (see the blog itself). I was recently reading _Educating Scholars_, which is an analysis of a Mellon-funded project in the 1990s that looked at various aspects of "success" in elite PhD programmes in the U.S. But a lot of their analysis is more generally useful. I've written some short pieces as a kind of commentary in my blog (see the ones collected here, for example: http://dpod.kakelbont.ca/tag/educating-scholars-book/). From that reading, and from my own experience as a researcher and administrator in a university, then, I can give a couple of observations, without necessarily being able to judge their implications for anybody. The first is that you are probably right that not publishing in Graduate School is a hindrance on the academic employment market. You do seem to get a strong boost from publishing as a graduate student (see http://dpod.kakelbont.ca/2012/06/11/publish-or-perish-should-graduate-students-publish-before-graduation/). The second is that experience suggests that it is very hard for the reasons you mention to maintain or develop a publication programme from outside an academic job--the demands of the "outside" work make it very difficult to do such demanding work on the side for what must always be an uncertain economic conclusion. A third is that the statistics seem to suggest that grad students generally tend to do alright--and be happy--both within and without academia, with the "leavers" (those who leave academia) looking like they might if anything be doing better than those who stay in. http://dpod.kakelbont.ca/2012/06/08/those-who-cant-teach-do/ I do remember this being very much the case when I was on the job market: I knew a lot of miserable graduate students and immediate post-docs but almost everybody I knew who'd decided to "leave" academia was happy. That happiness difference is probably an artifact of the slower career path in Academia and the longer time-to-career-position and I suspect it narrows over time (most of the comments on Beswick's piece seem to be coming from students, post-docs, and early career academics, when things are most stressful). But it is worth keeping in mind. As I say, you can't really speak for somebody else's experience, but I think I might turn the question around the other way by concentrating on whether or not the work involved in researching and publishing around your other commitments is personally fulfilling, independently of whether it will help with academic employment prospects. If it is fulfilling and possible in its own right, then I would say continue to research: it couldn't /hurt/ your chances if the right job in academia came along. But if the cost of doing this work is too high, or if it has for whatever reason become unfulfilling under the conditions available to you, then I would say you should go easier on yourself: the job market is so tough (and has been for many years, even if it seems to be worse now) that no amount of publication is going to be enough to /guarantee/ you a successful academic job search even if you weren't trying to fit it in around your other commitments at considerable cost. It is easy for me to say because I have an academic job, but I think myself that academia itself is only "worth it" if the work involved is intrinsically fulfilling and possible to do. Jobs are so scarce in this business that I never recommend to graduate students and post docs that they do anything for reasons other than personal fulfilment: there is always a good chance that the only reward you will receive will be that fulfilment. That's my two cents anyway. I really do wish you good luck in a very hard situation! On 12-07-06 02:12 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 133. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 14:45:31 +0100 > From: Alexander Hay > Subject: Should I quit? > > > A bit of a personal post, I know, but still. > > I received my doctorate in 2009 and have been trying to get a job ever > since. One problem I had was the lack of a publication record, as I wasn't > told how important this was until towards the end of my PhD. The other > problem is that I've had to work ever since, so finding the time and > resources to research anything is very difficult too. I now only have two > publication credits to my name, and I am honestly considering giving up. > Was it all a waste of time? Tell me what you think. > > - Alexander -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:00:57 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? In-Reply-To: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> No one can really answer your question for you. Stats I've read are that 50% of English Ph.D.s never get tenure track jobs, and those who do take about seven years to get there. I'm unsure what field you are in, but you need to ask first how important it is to you to get a teaching position, how long you're willing to try until you do give up, and what kind of teaching positions you are willing to take until you get the position that you want. Jim R --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 16:54:26 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Should I Quit? In-Reply-To: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, That was a very heart-rending post from Alexander, and I sure will elicit a supportive response, urging him to carry on in a variety of ways. But I would feel badly if I wasn't adding to the advice. I suppose the essential points are:- - This is an issue in all discjplines, but it doesn't make it any easier. - It isn't too late to build up a publication record. You can quickly build up a very powerful record if you are as focussed as you were in completing the Ph D. - The main thing to bear in mind is that the monograph still trumps article publications, and quality can be more important than quantity, so a good monograph publication based on the Ph D can do the trick. - The rules of this game remain absurd and arcane, and get a senior friend in the field to explain to you. - Avoid siren calls suggesting that on-line publication can quickly resolve the problem. The rules of the game require some solid peer-reviewed publications, although if they are peer-reviewed and prestigious, it doesn't mater if they are on-line or not. - Above all,it behoves those of us who are supervisors to try and teach our doctoral students at an early stage the rules of this game. Andrew -- Professor Andrew Prescott FRHistS Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL @ajprescott www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh digitalriffs.blogspot.com +44 (0)20 7848 2651 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 20:28:16 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DD6284A57; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:28:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC2F6284A4B; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:28:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120709202810.AC2F6284A4B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:28:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.136 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 136. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:29:25 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.131 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120706200802.EE3CF284DED@woodward.joyent.us> Wendell > Of course those who know some programming will appreciate that much code > already is non-linear, at least in languages in which the control flow > of the program does not correspond to the order of instructions given. > (And even some in which it largely does, at least insofar as they > support function definitions, subroutines etc.) Absolutely. It depends on precisely what is meant by 'non-linear', but it seems to me that any substantial modern program will be far less linear than a novel, or even than most hypertext narrative (and of course, it should be noted that html is code and that hypertext was an invention of programmers, albeit one that a small subset of fiction writers have made some use of). I hope that 'aesthetic computing' is not going to consist in humanists trying to teach programmers to suck eggs! > Early in the thread Jim R suggested we would have to learn to talk in > code before we could generalize about an aesthetics of code. But we talk > in code all the time, as you know if you've ever listened to a doctor or > lawyer or musician or long-distance trucker at work. ... > A code doesn't > just have an aesthetic: it is an aesthetic. > > Regards, > Wendell Yes, and this illustrates a couple of points that I've been trying to get at. The first and I think more important one is that nobody should think that 'aesthetic computing' can consist in artists or humanists bringing aesthetics into the field of computing: it is already there, albeit in a form that few humanists are able to recognise. The second is the reason why so many people are unable to recognise the aesthetics involved, ie. that one actually needs to learn programming first. Otherwise, we might as well be discussing the aesthetics of French fiction without learning French, or discussing the aesthetics of writing without learning to read. A trucker's discourse is baffling to those to whom it is a foreign language, and so it is with code. Your analogy raises a couple more issues that haven't been much discussed here. The first is that while English-speaking truckers (and programmers!) have their own jargon, it's still English, and not some other natural language (for example, French) - and (more profoundly) it's still natural language, and not some other kind of symbolic system (for example, formal logic or a programming language - or even, and perhaps especially, a visual programming language). What I mean to emphasise is that when we talk of the aesthetics of code, we're talking about the aesthetics of something radically different from the language we're communicating in right now. The second issue is that the language used by truckers is part of a trucker's experience of trucking, as well as being one of the most distinctive means by which that experience is encoded and mediated. If I wanted to have an opinion on the aesthetics of all that, it seems to me that I would need to spend some time driving a truck. Best wishes Daniel -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 9 20:30:26 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82501284B8B; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:30:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A8A7A284B69; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:30:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120709203017.A8A7A284B69@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:30:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.137 ACH Mentoring? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 137. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:51:08 -0500 From: Tanya Clement Subject: ACH Mentoring ACH Mentoring Are you on the job market? Are you looking for general career advice in the Digital Humanities? Do you have valuable career advice to give? If so, the ACH Mentoring program is for you! Here are some of the objectives of the mentoring programme. • have new-comers to digital humanities meet more established professionals • allow broader networking between digital humanists • provide professional guidance about jobs and careers • provide additional discipline-specific advice If you'd like to participate in the mentoring programme as a potential mentor or mentee, please send the following information to Tanya Clement (tclement@ischool.utexas.edu): • are you a potential mentor or mentee? • what are your areas of expertise and experience • if you're a mentee: • what would you value most from a mentor? • is there anyone specific you have in mind as a mentor? Please note that if you've volunteered in the past as a mentor you don't need to contact us again unless you wish to opt-out. Reminder: if you have a position or are looking for one, please attend the ACH Jobs Slam at the Annual General Meeting in Hamburg: http://ach.org/jobs-slam-2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 9 20:33:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1D9284CF8; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:33:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD492284CE6; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:33:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120709203329.CD492284CE6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:33:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.138 publications: Oxford Scholarly Editions; Architectures of the Book; TEI corpora X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 138. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Thomas (40) Subject: Quality Assurance in large TEI corpora [2] From: Richard Cunningham (15) Subject: call for contributions: Architectures of the Book [3] From: Willard McCarty (31) Subject: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:31:14 +0200 From: Christian Thomas Subject: Quality Assurance in large TEI corpora Dear Colleagues, for those concerned with Quality Assurance in large TEI corpora, Deutsches Textarchiv's recently published article might be of interest. English abstract below, text is German, though. All the best – for the DTA-Team – Christian Thomas Alexander Geyken, Susanne Haaf, Bryan Jurish, Matthias Schulz, Christian Thomas, Frank Wiegand: "TEI und Textkorpora: Fehlerklassifikation und Qualitätskontrolle vor, während und nach der Texterfassung im Deutschen Textarchiv" In: Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie, http://www.computerphilologie.de/jg09/geykenetal.pdf Abstract: This paper deals with the issue of quality assurance in very large, XML/TEI-encoded full-text collections. The text corpus edited by the DFG-funded project Deutsches Textarchiv (henceforth: DTA), a large and still growing reference corpus of historical German, is a fine example of such a collection. The following remarks focus on text prepared in a Double-Keying-process, since the major part of the DTA-corpus is compiled by applying this highly accurate method. An extensive and multi-tiered approach, which is currently applied by the DTA for the analysis and correction of errors in double-keyed text, is introduced. The process of quality assurance is pursued in a formative way in order to prevent as many errors as possible, as well as in a summative way in order to track errors which nevertheless may have occurred in the course of full-text digitization. To facilitate the latter, DTAQ, a web-based, collaborative tool for finding and commenting errors in the corpus, was developed. On the profound basis of practical experience in the past four years, the preliminaries and possible methods of conducting a widespread quality assurance are being discussed. -- Christian Thomas Deutsches Textarchiv Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Jägerstr. 22/23 10117 Berlin Raum: 359 Tel.: +49 (0)30 20370 523 E-Mail:thomas@bbaw.de www.deutschestextarchiv.de -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 17:50:49 +0000 From: Richard Cunningham Subject: call for contributions: Architectures of the Book Call for Submissions Dear Member of Humanist, Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) is the name of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) major collaborative research initiative investigating how best to design and implement new digital information environments to fit the needs of their users. Through research on the history and the future of the book, the way that people read and work in both digital and print environments, the design of information in these environments, and the technological facilitation of that design, INKE seeks to offer models for engaging with scholarly material. In brief, rather than leaving the design of new environments for reading, writing, and recording texts to hardware designers (in the big tent sense of “texts” championed by social bibliographer D.F. McKenzie) INKE wants to prioritize the human in human-computer interaction. As part of INKE’s research into the history of the book, our Textual Studies team has developed and is seeking your help in populating an online reference resource called Architectures of the Book, or ArchBook for short (www.archbook.ca). ArchBook has a peer review-based editorial process, and a very impressive, international, Editorial Board. Our decision to implement a reviewing process is motivated by a desire to support graduate students and junior faculty members whose contributions can legitimately be said to be peer reviewed. While our process is rigorous, for each submission it also follows specific timelines according to which the author can project very accurately the date by which she or he can expect to hear backfrom us, and, in the case of acceptance, the date by which her or his work will be published. Please consult ArchBook, at www.ArchBook.ca http://www.ArchBook.ca , and after visiting the Home page click on the “For Authors” link. There you’ll find a good description of what you might submit and how to do so. In addition to our list of potential topics and the list of topics already being worked on by others, please feel free to propose a topic you don’t see listed. We do not consider our list to be complete, and welcome suggestions beyond that list. We welcome consultation, and advise it before seeking submission of a topic not listed. We hope you’ll contribute something to ArchBook. We hope it can become one of the go-to resources for those interested in the history of books, textuality, and print culture. We also maintain an ArchBook blog http://inke-archbook.blogspot.ca/ , accessible from the menu on the ArchBook.ca page. We welcome contributions from all with an interest in textual studies of an form. The wider you and we imagine that audience, the more interesting the blog will become. Please treat it as a place to ask questions, a place to make observations, or a place to engage and to engage others in discussion. Please feel free to contribute to what we hope will be a very useful and thoughtful community conversation. We welcome questions and invite submissions to at least two of the following: Jon.Bath[at]gmail.ca Richard.Cunningham[at]acadiau.ca Brent.Nelson[at]usask.ca S.Schofield[at]utoronto.ca Werstine[at]uwo.ca --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:05:36 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online Oxford Scholarly Editions Online http://oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/project/ > 2012 sees the launch of a major new publishing initiative from Oxford > University Press – Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) – the > first phase will consist of the digital publication of the complete > text of more than 170 scholarly editions of material written between > 1485 and 1660. From the blog post by Marilyn Deegan: (http://oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/2012/07/09/from-print-to-digital-the-hybrid-edition/) > Electronic editing has been much discussed over the last twenty > years, but it remains true that there has not been widespread > adoption of electronic practice by editors. And what scholars want, > we have found over the years, is something that gives us all the > benefits of print, with many of the benefits of the electronic. So we > want well-edited, reputable texts of authors with scholarly > apparatus, notes, etc, as well as easy access, searchability (and > cross-searchability), good bibliographic references, and we want > critical mass. We also want it to be easy to use (we do NOT want to > become computer experts, just as we did not want to become > typesetters). Offering online versions of existing printed texts > gives us all these benefits: we still have what print does best, and > we also now have what the digital does best – in short, Oxford > Scholarly Editions Online is what scholars have been waiting for over > the last twenty years. -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 9 20:36:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B586284F82; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:36:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E3BF6284F4C; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:36:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120709203624.E3BF6284F4C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:36:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.139 something as big as the Higgs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 139. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:26:36 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.129 as head-turning as the Higgs boson? digitalbits in a dissertation? In-Reply-To: <20120705210218.1A84C284948@woodward.joyent.us> The simple answer is "the scientific method", which is the big divide sparating the digital humanities from the sciences--but that wouldn't close the gap between academic excellence and Nobel Prize level work (Level 1). The secondary answer would thus be along the lines of "permanently changing the way something was thought about"; a paradigm shift (Level 2). There is probably a third component, something well beyond Nobel Prize level thinking, and that's "affect the future of human survival", i.e., actually change whether people live or die (Level 3). It comes from the applications of a paradigm shift. The discovery that microscopic organisms were the basis for some diseases; the discovery of antibiotics; the discovery of the roles of vitamins in human health; the invention of dynamite (Nobel's own idea); splitting of the atom leading to the creation of nuclear weapons and nuclear medicine, etc. For the digital humanities to achieve similar results (Level 2) there would first have to be a means of testing and refuting beliefs even to the use of 'control groups', 'double blind experiments', etc. It would have to mean that eloquent argument took a backseat to experimental and statistical proof. Measurement of physical phenomena would have to replace aesthetics. What an individual 'feels' would have to be proven to correlate with what some machine records or some mathematical formula provides as an result. It is very odd to see a discipline within the humanities trying to fight its way out of the humanities rather than science nibbling away at the exterior of the humanities trying to 'scientifically' explain more of the universe that doesn't yet yield to such explanations. Is this the 'digital' influence? It reminds me of the debate over "What is artificial intelligence?" where the understanding of new computational techniques that enable emulating new aspects of human intelligence is seen as 'not really being intelligent behavior' once understood. True artificial intelligence is thus akin to a magician's trick which the audience doesn't understand how it is done. Does 'true humanities' have to involve the creation of works whose experience transcends understanding of how they were or could be created? Will results from 'digital humanities' suffer the same dilemma of the creations of artificial intelligence. If you build them, they will disown them. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 9 20:38:39 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 050CB28407B; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:38:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 88B7E28406D; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:38:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120709203831.88B7E28406D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:38:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.140 open-source TUSTEP X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 140. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:30:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: TUSTEP is open source - with TXSTEP providing a new XML interface In-Reply-To: <20120611201840.6137014A99F@woodward.joyent.us> We are pleased to announce that, starting with the release 2012, TUSTEP is available as open source software. It is distributed under the Revised BSD Licence and can be downloaded from www.tustep.org. TUSTEP has a long tradition as a highly flexible, reliable, efficient suite of programs for humanities computing. It started in the early 70ies as a tool for supporting humanities projects at the University of Tbingen, relying on own funds of the University. From 1985 to 1989, a substantial grant from the Land Baden-Wrttemberg officially opened its distribution beyond the limits of the University and started its success as a highly appreciated research tool for many projects at about a hundred universities and academic institutions in the German speaking part of the world, represented since 1993 in the International TUSTEP User Group (ITUG). Reports on important projects relying on TUSTEP and a list of publications (includig lexicograpic works and critical editions) can be found on the tustep webpage. From 2003, academic partner institutions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland have contributed more than 300.000 EUR to support the availability and further development of TUSTEP according to the needs of research and of technical change in hardware and operating systems. One of the conditions of the respective consortium agreement was that, in the course of this cooperation, TUSTEP will be made available as an open source product. We are confident that TUSTEPs new status as an open source product will help, with the aid of a larger interested community, to overcome existing obstacles against its more widespread usability: presently, both command language and documentation are available in German only (work on an English version had to be stopped due to lacking funds in the early 90ies). TXSTEP, presently being developed in cooperation with Stuttgart Media University, offers a new XML-based user interface to the TUSTEP programs. Compared to the original TUSTEP commands, we see important advantages: - it will offer an up-to-date established syntax for scripting; - it will show the typical benefits of working with an XML editor, like content completion, highlighting, showing annotations, and, of course, verifying the code; - it will offer - to a certain degree - a self teaching environment by commenting on the scope of every step; - it will help to avoid many syntactical errors, even compared to the original TUSTEP scripting environment; - the syntax is in English, providing a more widespread usability than TUSTEP's German command language. At the TEI conference last year in Würzburg, we presented a first prototype to an international audience. We look forward to DH2012 in Hamburg next week where, during the Poster Session, a more enhanced version which already contains most of TUSTEPs functions will be presented. A demonstration of TXSTEPs functionality will include tasks which can not easily be performed by existing XML tools. After the demo, you are invited to download a test version of TXSTEP to play with, to comment on it and to help make it a great and flexible tool for everyday - and complex - questions. Best, Wilhelm Ott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott phone: +49-7071-987656 Universitaet Tuebingen fax: +49-7071-987622 c/o Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung e-mail: wilhelm.ott@uni-tuebingen.de Waechterstrasse 76 D-72074 Tuebingen _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 9 20:40:19 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7613D28410D; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:40:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 10D992840CF; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:40:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120709204012.10D992840CF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:40:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.141 cfp: Visibility Matters X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0242609918==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0242609918== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 141. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:29:19 +0200 From: Katrin Kleemann Subject: Call for Papers: Visibility Matters. Call for Papers Visibility Matters: Rendering Human Origins and Diversity in Space and Time International Conference at the University of Lucerne, 25-27 April, 2013 Organisers: Susanne Bauer (Frankfurt), Veronika Lipphardt (Berlin), Staffan Müller-Wille (Exeter), Marianne Sommer (Lucerne), Sandra Widmer (Berlin) Deadline for Paper Proposals: 30 September 2012 Submission at officelipphardt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de The University of Lucerne Research Groups History Within: The Phylogenetic Memory of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules and Collecting Humanity: How Human Remains are Made into Museum Objects and the Max Planck Research Group Historicizing Knowledge about Human Diversity in the Twentieth Century (Berlin) are jointly organising a conference Visibility Matters: Rendering Human Origins and Diversity in Space and Time. The conference aims at bringing together scholars from various disciplines who work on the visualization of human origins and diversity. A particular focus will be on the diagrammatic forms of representation. Strategies of diagrammatic representation typically employ a series of textual, symbolic, and pictorial elements. Such strategies may include, among others, specific ways of subjectification; the serialization, spatialization, and temporalization of data; the storage of standardized data sets; and staging techniques of protagonists, events, and processes, notably in the architecture of exhibitions, parks and museums, and through the medium of film and animation. Pending the outcome of funding applications, we hope to be able to cover costs for travel and accommodation for all speakers. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander Hay (235) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.135 should I quit [2] From: Hugh Cayless (60) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? [3] From: Willard McCarty (37) Subject: quitting or not [4] From: Daniel Allington (41) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:21:38 +0100 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.135 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20120709202617.4590E284946@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, For me, the main problem is a lack of resources, particularly time. Plus, I was made redundant from my (non-)academic job, so I'm in even more of a parlous state. My biggest fear is that I have worked very hard for a White Elephant qualification that's either not good enough for some posts, or makes me too qualified for others. Thanks, in any case! - Alexander --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:05:36 -0400 From: Hugh Cayless Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? In-Reply-To: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> The replies so far have been from people who didn't quit, so I thought you should hear from someone who did :-). I quit in 2001, after graduating in 1999. I don't regard my Ph.D. as a waste of time97it taught me to be intellectually fearless, something that has stuck with me ever since. There is bound to be regret and feelings of failure, but failing also teaches you and forces you to become stronger. And you have to realize that getting a tenure-track job is almost purely a roll of the dice. Of my grad school cohort (4) only one of us is still teaching in higher ed, and he doesn't have tenure. Further, even if you got one of the mythical tenure-track jobs, you might end up somewhere you hate. It's no guarantee of happiness. The Versatile Ph.D. site (http://versatilephd.com/) has a lot of good information about quitting and beyond. On a bad day, I would rant about how graduate education is a giant fail machine that chews good people up and spits them out, but I won't go into that now. We can wish it were not so, but most of the incentives are stacked against change. I'll just conclude by saying that it isn't your fault and that there is probably a lot of good you can take from the experience and apply elsewhere. Only you can decide whether you should quit, but there are plenty of other cool things to do in the world. Best, Hugh --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:16:32 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: quitting or not In-Reply-To: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> Before I was called to my first academic job, which I still hold, I had no evidence whatever that I would get one. Involvement with computing almost by itself guaranteed that I would never have a chance at the tenure-track and would always be on the wrong side of those tracks. I had gone from a PhD into a non-tenurable job in a university, and after a number of unsuccessful efforts (assisted by well meaning and highly influential people) I decided to do what I most wanted to do in the time available before, during and after paid work. I had a spot of good luck with a grant from the Canadian government to fund my research. Then, as we say, fortune smiled on me. Out of the blue an e-mail message, and not long after that, a job offer. It's hard to see that anything of use to anyone is to be learned from this much abbreviated personal narrative -- there's too much that just happened, or didn't. But the mantra that kept me going may be worth repeating: the only thing that matters, I told myself, is the work. Of course certain kinds of work were impossible under the circumstances I then had, specifically any kind which required sustained concentration. But I found a kind that I could do in bits and scraps of the day and night, and pressed on with that. As a result of the obsessive state into which I led myself other things did not get done, other things (and people close to me) were ignored. Some of the consequences were not good, at least not immediately. A life turned out as it has; other possible lives were not lived. Who knows which of these would have been better? What most matters to you? If it's scholarship, then what sort can you do? There's so much to be done that involves only reading and writing and thinking. A healthy measure of de-professionalisation of the disciplines would make it easier (if done right, in a good way) for those outside of the academy to publish alongside those within it -- not for measurable impact (the idea be damned, for it comes from the place of the damned) but to communicate and converse. To build and grow a community of ideas. To learn from others. I am also fond of pointing out that the single thing most responsible for me getting that academic job was Humanist, neither peer-reviewed nor rateable. The historical moment in which thinking it up and making it work were possible has of course passed, but surely all such moments of opportunity to leap creatively into the unknown are not in the past. Yours, WM Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:20:22 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? In-Reply-To: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> Alexander For my sins, I sometimes find myself watching talent shows on TV. When a contestant gets kicked out, at least one of the celebrity judges or mentors or whatever can generally be relied upon to tell the unfortunate individual never to give up on his/her dreams, that this isn't the end of the road, that his/her time hasn't yet come, that this is just the beginning, etc. I think that's just about the most heartless bit of advice in showbusiness. Subscribers to this list probably know better than to proffer the academic equivalent (though god knows I've heard it often enough elsewhere). Perhaps you should have started cranking out articles sooner. But even if someone had tipped you off that it was the right thing to do, you'd eventually have realised there was some other bit of advice that you hadn't heard and that you probably would have been unable to follow even if you had heard it (for instance that research funding counts for more than research publications, or that jobs will be coming up in sub-discipline X whereas you're in sub-discipline Y). Soon, all PhD students will be putting more effort into publishing articles than into finishing their theses, and something else - something equally unreasonable - will be found to differentiate them. Maybe that's happened already. Assuming that you're looking for work in the UK (because you haven't told us otherwise and I don't know how things operate elsewhere), you're an 'early career researcher', in which case two publications from you is equal to four publications from someone more established for the purposes of the wretched REF - so there's probably something else counting against you besides the length of your publications record. Maybe it's just the fact that you *are* an early career academic. By and large, appointments committees aren't out there to give the next generation a break, they're out there to identify the most economically valuable candidate who will apply for the job under the terms and conditions that the university or faculty administrators have permitted to be set. The rules are changing all the time, and in any case they are manifestly unfair. At the end of the day, there are too few good jobs and too many good scholars chasing after them. Universities expect the moon on a stick from job applicants, and they get it, too, because we go into this for love and only later - much, much later, and often too late - ask ourselves whether there's any sense to the sacrifices that we and our families have been making. You might get a job, you might not. If you do get one, it's likely to be on a fixed term contract, in which case you'll probably find yourself asking the same question a year or so down the line (less if it's maternity cover). I do, however, have one positive thing to say, which is that 'Should I quit?' and 'Was it all a waste of time?' are very different issues. You can quit without its having been a waste of time. You can always quit without anything's having been a waste of time. Best wishes - whether you stay or go Daniel _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 10 20:51:02 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADF4284FD1; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:51:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC944284FAD; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:50:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120710205054.AC944284FAD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:50:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.144 aesthetic computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 144. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:56:23 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.136 aesthetic computing In-Reply-To: <20120709202810.AC2F6284A4B@woodward.joyent.us> Wendell's and Daniel's recent posts on aesthetic computing were illuminating, thank you. I think Wendell equivocates a bit when he says that "we talk in code all of the time." As Daniel points out, there's a substantial difference between "code" in the sense of "jargon" and programming code. When I said that we would need to learn to speak in code, I was making a point similar to Daniel's: in order to judge the aesthetics of programming code, we need to learn to program. But I was actually making a claim beyond that. Programmers, similarly, in order to talk about the asethetics of programming code, need to learn the field of aesthetics. Kant's Critique of Judgment is just one good source among many. Any good anthology on aesthetics would be very helpful. We should keep in mind that while of course programming is a very different kind of code than "natural" language (there is no such thing as natural language), the range of human aesthetic experiences are not necessarily unique to a single kind of artistic product. At the least, we would have to learn to speak intelligently about other kinds of aesthetic experiences before we could compare those to the aesthetics of programming. It may not hurt to forget that many humanists are not unfamiliar with coding, perhaps most commonly very simple kinds such as HTML. I'm trying to advocate that learning one programming language be added as a general education requirement at my institution, and I tell all of my students to try to do so anyhow, especially the English majors. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 10 21:02:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940082850F5; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:02:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 219642850E6; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:02:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120710210205.219642850E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:02:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.145 disowning or welcoming? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 145. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:42:11 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: disowning or moving on? In Humanist 26.139, Bob Amsler wrote in response to my query about making a real difference, > It reminds me of the debate over "What is artificial intelligence?" > where the understanding of new computational techniques that enable > emulating new aspects of human intelligence is seen as 'not really > being intelligent behavior' once understood. True artificial > intelligence is thus akin to a magician's trick which the audience > doesn't understand how it is done. Does 'true humanities' have to > involve the creation of works whose experience transcends > understanding of how they were or could be created? Will results from > 'digital humanities' suffer the same dilemma of the creations of > artificial intelligence. If you build them, they will disown them. At what point do we stop disowning them and welcome them instead? Is this a matter of the degree of intelligence or something about human intelligence which distinguishes it? Are we frightened by an "uncanny valley" (Mori 1970) on the other side of which we will be able to welcome them? What complicates all this is that we can hardly if at all think about such matters apart from computing, and so can no longer compare as if natural and artificial intelligences were quite distinct things. As the machine gets more like us, we in turn are changing, yes? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 Jul 10 21:04:19 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53319285158; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:04:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 020DF28513F; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:04:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120710210412.020DF28513F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:04:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.146 publication/launch: musicology; geo-temporal interpretation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 146. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (12) Subject: Neatline for geo-temporal interpretation of archival collections [2] From: "J. Stephen Downie" (23) Subject: Very good computational musicology article in Boston Globe --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:09:50 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Neatline for geo-temporal interpretation of archival collections The Scholars’ Lab is proud to announce the launch of Neatline, a set of Omeka plugins for hand-crafted geo-temporal visualization and interpretation. 1.0 versions of the software are available at: http://neatline.org/ -- where you can also see sample exhibits, play in the sandbox, and read more about our project, including news and history. Currently available are Neatline itself, Neatline Maps (an add-on for incorporating georeferenced historical maps and other web services), and stand-alone versions of our Neatline Features and Neatline Time plugins. Neatline is a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps and narrative sequences from collections of archives and artifacts in Omeka, and to connect your maps and narratives with timelines that are more-than-usually sensitive to ambiguity and nuance. In other words, Neatline lets you make hand-crafted, interactive stories as interpretive expressions of an archival or cultural heritage collection. This project is more about graphesis and humanities interpretation than about GIS analysis and algorithmic data visualization. Ours is a small-data approach in a big data world. Stay tuned to the Scholars’ Lab blog (http://scholarslab.org/) and to our news feed at http://neatline.org for a series of posts and screencasts to be shared over the course of the next two weeks. We’ll be providing support for our open-source software on the Omeka forums and dev list -- and presenting the project at DH 2012 in Hamburg. Neatline has been supported by generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the IMLS, and the Library of Congress. The Scholars' Lab is a department of the University of Virginia Library. Dr. Bethany Nowviskie Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute President, Association for Computers & the Humanities nowviskie.org | scholarslab.org | uvasci.org | ach.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:37:58 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Very good computational musicology article in Boston Globe Hi colleagues: I was recently interviewed for a Boston Globe article featuring music information retrieval and computational musicology research and development. The reporter did an excellent job of surveying a wide range of interesting projects. He also did very well at framing the issues and potentials of the kind of work we do as digital humanities researchers. I recommend it highly. http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/07/07/when-computers-listen-music-what-they-hear-when-computers-listen-music-what-they-hear/hzdqdfgsIgEPiWPRe66U8J/story.html Paper version came out as part of the Sunday edition. Hope to see you all in Hamburg. Cheers, Stephen -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science 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 Tue Jul 10 21:06:47 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A143D2851D9; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:06:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8CEF32851C5; 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.143 should I quit [2] From: Alexander Hay (254) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.143 should I quit --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:55:41 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.143 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20120710204952.0AB3B284F15@woodward.joyent.us> Alexander: I had far more time to write in my non-academic job than I do in my academic job, which feels like it consumes every waking hour at times. You'll have the same issue with publishing once you go into academia, even if you get a research job with a 2-2 or 2-1 teaching load. You won't believe everything that gets piled on to you. It's a miracle anyone publishes, though some have better support. Jim R For me, the main problem is a lack of resources, particularly time. Plus, I > was made redundant from my (non-)academic job, so I'm in even more of a > parlous state. > > My biggest fear is that I have worked very hard for a White Elephant > qualification that's either not good enough for some posts, or makes me too > qualified for others. > > Thanks, in any case! > > - Alexander --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:02:21 +0100 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.143 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20120710204952.0AB3B284F15@woodward.joyent.us> @ Hugh One strategy I'm looking into is getting into a university via the backdoor and getting a job in one as a web editor. Strangely enough, that's where all my job interviews lately have been coming from. It may be a forlorn hope, but I have done sort of well as a web editor, when I'm not being made redundant, that is. @ Willard Certainly, keeping one's finger in the pie helps. I stayed up all night recently banging together a site for my BJJ club, for example, and the response to my initial post has spurred me onto writing an article on Ceefax... You mention 'de-professionalisation' - to a degree, I concur. Perhaps the main problem with academia is that you are trying to join a breakaway group from society, with surprisingly different mores and outlooks. (If my English department was anything to go by, anyhow.) Joining this club is difficult, because of the unwritten or unspoken rules. It would be much easier for all concerned if it were something you could dip in and out of. My problem is wanting a career but needing a living, and when you're fighting for the few ways into 'the academy', it's hard to do both, especially these days. @ Daniel Trust me, if I had been told about the importance of a publication record, I'd have been churning them out from day one. My big mistake was assuming that all supervisors go about it the same way, but no one really went out of their way to correct me. I have my doubts about universities too - especially the ones that call you in for interview from half-way across the country before telling you that you've failed because (you guessed it) your publication record sucks. Do they actually bother to read application forms before shortlisting? It's not even joined up. The same institutions that seem to have it in for the early career brigade still keep churning them out via studentships. I suppose it would just be a crying shame if my PhD is ornamental and I end up in a job I could have got if I'd stayed happy with an MA. It depends on whether a PhD is a means to an end, or an end in itself, and I am inclined to see it as the former. - Alexander On 10 July 2012 21:49, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 143. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Alexander Hay > (235) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.135 should I quit > > [2] From: Hugh Cayless > (60) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? > > [3] From: Willard McCarty > (37) > Subject: quitting or not > > [4] From: Daniel Allington > (41) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:21:38 +0100 > From: Alexander Hay > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.135 should I quit > In-Reply-To: <20120709202617.4590E284946@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Dear Willard, > > For me, the main problem is a lack of resources, particularly time. Plus, I > was made redundant from my (non-)academic job, so I'm in even more of a > parlous state. > > My biggest fear is that I have worked very hard for a White Elephant > qualification that's either not good enough for some posts, or makes me too > qualified for others. > > Thanks, in any case! > > - Alexander > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:05:36 -0400 > From: Hugh Cayless > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? > In-Reply-To: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> > > > The replies so far have been from people who didn't quit, so I thought > you should hear from someone who did :-). > > I quit in 2001, after graduating in 1999. I don't regard my Ph.D. as a > waste of time97it taught me to be intellectually fearless, something > that has stuck with me ever since. There is bound to be regret and > feelings of failure, but failing also teaches you and forces you to > become stronger. And you have to realize that getting a tenure-track job > is almost purely a roll of the dice. Of my grad school cohort (4) only > one of us is still teaching in higher ed, and he doesn't have tenure. > Further, even if you got one of the mythical tenure-track jobs, you > might end up somewhere you hate. It's no guarantee of happiness. The > Versatile Ph.D. site (http://versatilephd.com/) has a lot of good > information about quitting and beyond. > > On a bad day, I would rant about how graduate education is a giant fail > machine that chews good people up and spits them out, but I won't go > into that now. We can wish it were not so, but most of the incentives > are stacked against change. I'll just conclude by saying that it isn't > your fault and that there is probably a lot of good you can take from > the experience and apply elsewhere. > > Only you can decide whether you should quit, but there are plenty of > other cool things to do in the world. > > Best, > Hugh > > > > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:16:32 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: quitting or not > In-Reply-To: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> > > Before I was called to my first academic job, which I still hold, I had > no evidence whatever that I would get one. Involvement with > computing almost by itself guaranteed that I would never have a > chance at the tenure-track and would always be on the wrong side of > those tracks. I had gone from a PhD into a non-tenurable job in a > university, and after a number of unsuccessful efforts (assisted by well > meaning and highly influential people) I decided to do what I most > wanted to do in the time available before, during and after paid work. I > had a spot of good luck with a grant from the Canadian government to > fund my research. Then, as we say, fortune smiled on me. Out of the blue > an e-mail message, and not long after that, a job offer. > > It's hard to see that anything of use to anyone is to be learned from > this much abbreviated personal narrative -- there's too much that just > happened, or didn't. But the mantra that kept me going may be worth > repeating: the only thing that matters, I told myself, is the work. > Of course certain kinds of work were impossible under the circumstances > I then had, specifically any kind which required sustained > concentration. But I found a kind that I could do in bits and scraps of > the day and night, and pressed on with that. > > As a result of the obsessive state into which I led myself other things > did not get done, other things (and people close to me) were ignored. > Some of the consequences were not good, at least not immediately. > A life turned out as it has; other possible lives were not lived. Who > knows which of these would have been better? > > What most matters to you? If it's scholarship, then what sort can you > do? There's so much to be done that involves only reading and writing > and thinking. > > A healthy measure of de-professionalisation of the disciplines would > make it easier (if done right, in a good way) for those outside of the > academy to publish alongside those within it -- not for measurable > impact (the idea be damned, for it comes from the place of the damned) > but to communicate and converse. To build and grow a community of ideas. > To learn from others. > > I am also fond of pointing out that the single thing most responsible > for me getting that academic job was Humanist, neither peer-reviewed nor > rateable. The historical moment in which thinking it up and making it > work were possible has of course passed, but surely all such moments > of opportunity to leap creatively into the unknown are not in the past. > > Yours, > WM > > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, > University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist > (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ > > > > > --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:20:22 +0100 > From: Daniel Allington > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.133 Should I quit? > In-Reply-To: <20120706201230.9C88B284EE6@woodward.joyent.us> > > Alexander > > For my sins, I sometimes find myself watching talent shows on TV. When a > contestant gets kicked out, at least one of the celebrity judges or mentors > or whatever can generally be relied upon to tell the unfortunate individual > never to give up on his/her dreams, that this isn't the end of the road, > that his/her time hasn't yet come, that this is just the beginning, etc. I > think that's just about the most heartless bit of advice in showbusiness. > Subscribers to this list probably know better than to proffer the academic > equivalent (though god knows I've heard it often enough elsewhere). > > Perhaps you should have started cranking out articles sooner. But even if > someone had tipped you off that it was the right thing to do, you'd > eventually have realised there was some other bit of advice that you hadn't > heard and that you probably would have been unable to follow even if you > had heard it (for instance that research funding counts for more than > research publications, or that jobs will be coming up in sub-discipline X > whereas you're in sub-discipline Y). Soon, all PhD students will be putting > more effort into publishing articles than into finishing their theses, and > something else - something equally unreasonable - will be found to > differentiate them. Maybe that's happened already. > > Assuming that you're looking for work in the UK (because you haven't told > us otherwise and I don't know how things operate elsewhere), you're an > 'early career researcher', in which case two publications from you is equal > to four publications from someone more established for the purposes of the > wretched REF - so there's probably something else counting against you > besides the length of your publications record. Maybe it's just the fact > that you *are* an early career academic. By and large, appointments > committees aren't out there to give the next generation a break, they're > out there to identify the most economically valuable candidate who will > apply for the job under the terms and conditions that the university or > faculty administrators have permitted to be set. > > The rules are changing all the time, and in any case they are manifestly > unfair. At the end of the day, there are too few good jobs and too many > good scholars chasing after them. Universities expect the moon on a stick > from job applicants, and they get it, too, because we go into this for love > and only later - much, much later, and often too late - ask ourselves > whether there's any sense to the sacrifices that we and our families have > been making. > > You might get a job, you might not. If you do get one, it's likely to be > on a fixed term contract, in which case you'll probably find yourself > asking the same question a year or so down the line (less if it's maternity > cover). I do, however, have one positive thing to say, which is that > 'Should I quit?' and 'Was it all a waste of time?' are very different > issues. You can quit without its having been a waste of time. You can > always quit without anything's having been a waste of time. > Best wishes - whether you stay or go > > Daniel _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 11 20:49:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57292849C6; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:49:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0632B2849B5; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:49:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120711204902.0632B2849B5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.150 jobs in Luxenbourg; grants from NEH/DFG X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 150. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Rhody, Jason" (12) Subject: Grant Opportunity: NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program [2] From: Frédéric CLAVERT (10) Subject: 2 DH jobs at the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:37:56 -0400 From: "Rhody, Jason" Subject: Grant Opportunity: NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program Grant Opportunity: NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program The National Endowment for the Humanities continues its cooperation with the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) by offering another round of funding for the NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program. The revised 2012 guidelines can be found at http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanities-program . Please note that the deadline for submission is September 27, 2012 for projects beginning May 2013. NEH and DFG are working together to offer support for projects that contribute to developing and implementing digital infrastructures and services for humanities research. In order to encourage new approaches and develop innovative methods in any field of the humanities, these grants provide combined funding ranging from $100,000 to $350,000 (approximately €75,000 to €265,000) for up to three years in any of the following areas: · developing innovative methods—as well as standards and best practices—for building and merging digital collections that are important to the American and German scholarly community for use in research; · developing and implementing generic tools, methods, and techniques for accessing and processing digital resources relevant to humanities research; · ensuring the completion and long-term sustainability of existing digital resources (typically in conjunction with a library or archive); · creating new digital modes of scholarly communication and publishing that facilitate international cooperation and dissemination of humanities scholarship; and · developing models and case studies for effectively managing digital data generated in humanities research projects (for example, texts, audio files, photographs, 3D objects). Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement for this grant category. Each application must be sponsored by at least one eligible German individual or institution, and at least one U.S. institution, and there must be a project director from each country. The partners will collaborate to write a single application package, which will be submitted to both NEH and DFG for consideration. Program questions from applicants in the United States should be directed to Jason Rhody in NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities at jrhody@neh.gov. Program questions from German applicants should be directed to Christoph Kümmel at DFG at christoph.kuemmel@dfg.de. Note that program staff from NEH and DFG will also be available for grant discussions and consultations at this year’s Digital Humanities 2012 conference in Hamburg. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:26:38 +0200 From: Frédéric CLAVERT Subject: 2 DH jobs at the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe The Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe seeks two Digital Humanists. One of them will help develop the CVCE website API (http://www.cvce.eu/), the other will work on a text edition project (texts related to the history of European integration). For further details: http://www.cvce.eu/travailler-au-cvce/offre-emploi Best regards, Frédéric CLAVERT -- CVCE Digital Humanities Lab coordinator _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 11 20:52:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA829284A91; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:52:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E342E284A6C; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:51:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120711205153.E342E284A6C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:51:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.151 Who are you, Digital Humanists? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 151. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:50:39 +0200 From: Frédéric Clavert Subject: Digital Humanities Survey Dear Humanist readers, A few months ago, a couple of us launched a survey called "Who are you Digital Humanists?". By responding to this survey, you will help the Digital Humanities community discover its extent and diversity, as well as its geographical and linguistic composition. We hope you will be willing to participate in this survey and thus improve understanding of our community. This questionnaire, which is an initiative of the Centre for Open Publishing (Cleo) and OpenEdition.org, is a contribution to the Humanistica Project: towards a European Association for the Digital Humanities, building on the ideas expressed in the Digital Humanities Manifesto, based on a multilingual approach, and democratic principles (one person, one vote). If you agree with the principles of the Digital Humanities, you can sign it (http://www.humanistica.eu/manifesto). The URL of the survey is: https://docs.google.com/a/clavert.net/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG9vVGJTeERuOUtCdVFRRVZQQWp6Nmc6MQ#gid=0 Best regards, Frédéric Clavert -- Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe Digital Humanities Lab coordinator _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 11 20:54:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3BF284B04; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:54:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E10C6284AE6; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:54:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120711205420.E10C6284AE6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:54:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.152 new publication: visual research methods X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 152. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:28:51 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Handbook of Visual Research Methods Eric Margolis and Luc Pauwels, eds., The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods (2011). http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book233039 This book captures the state of the art in visual research. Margolis and Pauwels have brought together, in one volume, a unique survey of the field of visual research that will be essential reading for scholars and students across the social sciences, arts and humanities. The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods encompasses the breadth and depth of the field, and points the way to future research possibilities. It illustrates 'cutting edge' as well as long-standing and recognized practices. This book is not only 'about' research, it is also an example of the way that the visual can be incorporated into data collection and the presentation of research findings. Chapters describe a methodology or analytical framework, its strengths and limitations, possible fields of application and practical guidelines on how to apply the method or technique. The Handbook is organized into seven main sections: -- Framing the Field of Visual Research -- Producing Visual Data and Insight -- Participatory and Subject-Centered Approaches -- Analytical Frameworks and Approache -- Visualization Technologies and Practices -- Moving Beyond the Visual -- Options and Issues for Using and Presenting Visual Research -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 11 20:56:27 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF16284B8F; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:56:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 59FC8284B7B; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:56:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120711205620.59FC8284B7B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:56:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.153 new semantic annotation tool X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 153. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:14:01 +0100 From: Sam Leon Subject: New Semantic Annotation Tool for the Digital Humanities Dear The Humanist List, On behalf of a new EU funded initiative called Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E) http://dm2e.eu/ I'd like to announce that *Pundit http://thepund.it/*, an open-source semantic annotation tool for the Digital Humanities, is now ready for testing. Please do take the time to try out Pundit and give us feedback on the supplied forms so that we can improve them on future iterations. If you have any questions about the project or the tools, please do not hesitate to contact me. All the best, Sam --- *Pundit* Pundit is a powerful but easy to use semantic annotation tool. It enables you to link sections of text to each other or to other Linked Data resources on the net such as DBPedia, Freebase and Geonames. Pundit is currently in its Alpha phase, but you can already try out a demo version of the platform. Please remember to give us feedback on your experinces of Pundit via the Pundit questionnaire TEST PUNDIT http://thepund.it/demo.php *The DM2E project going forward* Pundit will continue to be developed as part of the DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana) project on the basis of feedback we receive from user testing and continuing work on user requiremnets and scholarly primitives led by Professor Gradmann at the Humboldt Universität. To follow the project and receive updates about events, conferences and code sprints we are running, please sign up to the project mailing list http://sympa.cms.hu-berlin.de/sympa/subscribe/dm2e-news or visit the project website http://dm2e.eu/ . -- Sam Leon Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Twitter: @noeL_maS Skype: samedleon _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 11 20:58:50 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C285284D11; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:58:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2FF61284CD5; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:58:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120711205843.2FF61284CD5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:58:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.154 events: arts & humanities; topic modelling X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 154. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jennifer Guiliano (53) Subject: Call for Applications: Topic Modeling for Humanities Research Workshop [2] From: Melissa Terras (29) Subject: Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter - free, 1 day symposium at UCL,18th September --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:24:20 -0400 From: Jennifer Guiliano Subject: Call for Applications: Topic Modeling for Humanities Research Workshop Please consider applying to join us. -- Topic Modeling for Humanities Research solicits applications to attend this one-day National Endowment for the Humanities-funded workshop Date: Saturday, November 3, 2012 Location: University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA Time: 9 am to 5 pm Applications Due: August 13th Topic Modeling for Humanities will facilitate a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization, information exchange, and collaboration between and among humanities scholars and researchers in natural language processing on the subject of topic modeling applications and methods. The workshop will be organized into three primary areas: 1)an overview of how topic modeling is currently being used in the humanities; 2)an inventory of extensions of the LDA model that have particular relevance for humanities research questions; and 3) a discussion of software implementations, toolkits, and interfaces. The workshop will provide an opportunity for humanists and scholars working in natural language processing jointly to identify potential areas of research and development within applications, extensions, and implementation of topic modeling. Topic Modeling in the Humanities will provide humanities scholars with a deeper understanding of the vocabulary of LDA topic modeling (and other latent variable modeling methods) and best practices for interpreting the output of such analysis, and will articulate fundamental literary and historical questions for researchers outside of the humanities who are developing the models and methods (as well as the software implementations). The organizers encourage applications from faculty, staff, and graduate students, as well as other academics and the general public with a serious interest in natural language processing, topic modeling, and the literary and historical questions that intersect with these research areas. To apply to attend the Topic Modeling Workshop, please visit here http://mith.umd.edu/topicmodeling/conftool/index.php . Applications should include an application statement (may consist of up to 2 pages) and a current curriculum vitae. The application statement should directly address the following criteria: 1) how will participation in this workshop further your career advancement? Please include a statement of any current projects in topic modeling and skills you might bring to the workshop. 2) what do you see yourself accomplishing through participation in the workshop? 3) what resources might you anticipate contributing to potential areas of research and development within applications, extensions, and implementation of topic modeling post-workshop? Participants will be selected based on these criteria with each area being weighted equally. Notification of selection will be made by September 1st. -- Jennifer Guiliano Assistant Director Email:guiliano@umd.edu Office Phone: (301) 405-9528 Skype: jenguiliano twitter: @jenguiliano website: http://mith.umd.edu/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:03:11 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Showing the Arts and Humanities Matter - free, 1 day symposium at UCL,18th September Apologies for cross-posting: please do share with those beyond the Digital Humanities community! UCL Centre for Digital Humanities are pleased to be organising a free, one day symposium at UCL in conjunction with 4Humanities, Arts Emergency, and UCL Department of Information Studies: http://showingtheartsandhumanitiesmatter.eventbrite.com. Government and private support for the Arts and Humanities—for research, teaching, preservation, and creative renewal in such fields as literature, history, languages, philosophy, classics, art history, and cultural studies – is in decline. What can we do to demonstrate that the Arts and Humanities matter? This free, one day symposium, on 18th September 2012 at UCL, London, will feature leading figures in understanding, demonstrating, and advocating for the Arts and Humanities. The symposium will also mark the launch of the 4Humanities@UCL chapter. Confirmed speakers include: • Professor Alan Liu, University of California Santa Barbara, and 4Humanities founder • Dr Rüdiger Klein, European Alliance for the Social Sciences and Humanities • Amy Westwell and Oliver Milne, The Free Hetherington Campaign • Neil Griffiths, Arts Emergency • Dr Anna Upchurch, University of Leeds, and Dr Eleonora Belfiore, University of Warwick • Professor Andrew Prescott, King’s College London. More information will be posted soon at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ah/4humanities/18thSeptember. The symposium is free to attend, and all with an interest in this area are welcome, although please do register in advance at http://showingtheartsandhumanitiesmatter.eventbrite.com. Melissa ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Co-Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Reader in Electronic Communication Department of Information Studies Foster Court University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 12 20:38:05 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB553285E6E; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:38:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4143E285E62; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:37:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120712203800.4143E285E62@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:37:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.155 should I quit X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 155. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:15:26 +0200 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.148 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20120711204242.AC0E52848B6@woodward.joyent.us> Not as a reply or a commentary, but rather as a side note, it may perhaps be permitted to quote an anecdote about Guy Debord (1931-1994), that early critic of the "global theater" (Marshall McLuhan) and founder of the Situationist International in 1957 "out of the fusion of two and a half existing groups, the Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, the Lettrist International, and the London Psychogeographical Association (the last was represented by its only member, Ralph Rumney)": "Deadlines, delays, and debts. These are the three inevitable topics around which Debord's letters circle. [...] Late in life he was to say: "I have been a good professional — but of what?" While the question was meant to be rhetorical, one not entirely implausible answer would be, "secretary." When he wrote the first letter in this volume, Debord had [...] drawn around himself the motley collection of drunks, drifters, and geniuses known as the Letterist International. He had painted its slogan by the banks of the river Seine: "Never work!" And had done his best to live up to that injunction. He was coming to realize that it implied another, and even harder discipline, the unwritten slogan: "Make no art!" (McKenzie Wark, in: Guy Debord Correspondence. The Foundation of the Situationist international (June 1957-August 1960). Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2009, 5). Of course, such a view will not pay anybody's bills. But what may be meant here, is a very meaningful distinction between work as an individual's achievement and work as a mere contribution to the "society of the spectacular" to uphold the stage scenes among which we move. With the means to produce and acquire knowledge having become ubiquitous after the digital divide, it is perhaps both possible and necesssary to redistribute public recognition of scholarly work, at least in the humanities that lack the laboratory infrastructure of the natural sciences. Crowd sourcing, crowd authoring, crowd curating, crowd revising, etc. are intelligent replies to those shifts between the groups of "professional" and "amateur" scholars and scientists. But we must never forget that even digital humanists are not digital at all, but humans with basic needs as to be able to live from what they have invested into their skills and learning. Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 12 20:40:39 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C4F284053; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:40:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4F907284025; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:40:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120712204021.4F907284025@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:40:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.156 jobs at Trinity Dublin, Stanford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 156. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Nicole Coleman (14) Subject: DH Position at Stanford [2] From: Shawn Day (13) Subject: Job Opportunity for Programmer/Analyst with DRIS --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:59:18 -0700 From: Nicole Coleman Subject: DH Position at Stanford The Stanford University Library in partnership with the Department of History seeks a digital historian for the position of Academic Technology Specialist (ATS). The Academic Technology Specialist (ATS) collaborates with faculty and graduate students in the History Department at Stanford University, developing and deploying innovative technological solutions in support of research, pedagogy, and publication. This position requires an advanced degree in history. For complete qualifications and full job description, please see jobs.stanford.edu. Enter the job id 48502 in the keyword search. Contact Nicole Coleman cncoleman@stanford.edu with any questions. Nicole Coleman Stanford Humanities Center Stanford University Libraries p: (650) 575-9958 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:24:20 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Job Opportunity for Programmer/Analyst with DRIS The Digital Resources and Imaging Services of the library at Trinity College Dublin has advertised a posting for a Programmer/Analyst. The programmer/analyst will be a key member of the libraries digitisation team, and will provide support and leadership with the planning, development and implementation of the technical infrastructure of the Trinity College Digital Library Collections Repository. This position will provide programming and technical expertise to support the ongoing development of an open source Fedora Commons-based Digital Library Repository (http://fedora-commons.org ** Not to be confused with the Linux Operating System) designed to provide new electronic access to the rare and unique Trinity College Library Special Collections and Library Research Resources, whilst ensuring the long term preservation of these unique and valuable digital resources and assets. The Digital Library Collections Repository can be viewed at http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie Applications are due by the 20 July 2012. More information and particulars can be found at: http://Jobs.tcd.ie in the Library Department section. For more information, please be in touch with: Tim Keefe Head of Digital Resources and Imaging Services Trinity College Dublin College Street Dublin 2, Ireland W: +353 1 896 2888 M: +353 87 2199773 keefet@tcd.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 12 20:41:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41AE32840CE; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:41:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 853352840BE; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:41:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120712204142.853352840BE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:41:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.157 calling all DH centres! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 157. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:07:04 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Calling All DH Centers! Dear all, centerNet is starting its first membership drive in a few months. As we transition into a membership dues collecting organization, we want to ensure that centerNet will provide necessary services and benefits to the community of Digital Humanities Centers worldwide. We are therefore asking you to take a few minutes to fill out the following brief survey as soon as possible. If you cannot fill it out yourself, please send the link to another employee at your DH center: http://bit.ly/NeBYsL This feedback will be extraordinarily useful. Many thanks for your time! If you have any questions, please contact Jean Bauer, Brown University's Digital Humanities Librarian and the Secretary for centerNet's Executive Council at jean_bauer@brown.edu Best, Neil -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://twitter.com/ http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103625845082&s=12322&e=001yfPenvYFXAImE2O-MiN05n3DJT14laE37Cg4Ha7Xy9zssjCXh6AF0eXsRKh40bUYLTp_dEaPDws2-JefDzbhaCRRRb7eBkinaw-CsPlptdXNb3npVZxpV0tUsnFIJbTB fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 13 23:40:33 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE86284D66; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:40:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EF554284D57; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:40:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120713234025.EF554284D57@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:40:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.158 should I quit X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 158. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:17:34 -0400 From: Lew Schwartz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.155 should I quit In-Reply-To: <20120712203800.4143E285E62@woodward.joyent.us> Well said and observed. -Lew Schwartz On Jul 12, 2012 4:38 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 155. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:15:26 +0200 > From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 26.148 should I quit > In-Reply-To: <20120711204242.AC0E52848B6@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Not as a reply or a commentary, but rather as a side note, > it may perhaps be permitted to quote an anecdote about Guy > Debord (1931-1994), that early critic of the "global > theater" (Marshall McLuhan) and founder of the Situationist > International in 1957 "out of the fusion of two and a half > existing groups, the Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, the > Lettrist International, and the London Psychogeographical > Association (the last was represented by its only member, > Ralph Rumney)": > > "Deadlines, delays, and debts. These are the three > inevitable topics around which Debord's letters circle. > [...] Late in life he was to say: "I have been a good > professional — but of what?" While the question was meant to > be rhetorical, one not entirely implausible answer would be, > "secretary." > > When he wrote the first letter in this volume, Debord had > [...] drawn around himself the motley collection of drunks, > drifters, and geniuses known as the Letterist International. > He had painted its slogan by the banks of the river Seine: > "Never work!" And had done his best to live up to that > injunction. He was coming to realize that it implied > another, and even harder discipline, the unwritten slogan: > "Make no art!" (McKenzie Wark, in: Guy Debord > Correspondence. The Foundation of the Situationist > international (June 1957-August 1960). Los Angeles, CA: > Semiotext(e), 2009, 5). > > Of course, such a view will not pay anybody's bills. But > what may be meant here, is a very meaningful distinction > between work as an individual's achievement and work as a > mere contribution to the "society of the spectacular" to > uphold the stage scenes among which we move. With the means > to produce and acquire knowledge having become ubiquitous > after the digital divide, it is perhaps both possible and > necesssary to redistribute public recognition of scholarly > work, at least in the humanities that lack the laboratory > infrastructure of the natural sciences. Crowd sourcing, > crowd authoring, crowd curating, crowd revising, etc. are > intelligent replies to those shifts between the groups of > "professional" and "amateur" scholars and scientists. But we > must never forget that even digital humanists are not > digital at all, but humans with basic needs as to be able to > live from what they have invested into their skills and > learning. > > Best regards, Hartmut > http://ww3.de/krech _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://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 13 23:41:58 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D3A284DD3; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:41:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7FBE284DC4; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:41:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120713234149.C7FBE284DC4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:41:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.159 career preparation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 159. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:32:51 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Study on career preparation in humanities graduate programs In-Reply-To: The Scholarly Communication Institute (http://uvasci.org/) is conducting a study on career preparation in humanities graduate programs. As part of this study, we are administering two confidential surveys: the first is for people on alternative academic career paths (that is, people with graduate training in the humanities and allied fields working beyond the professoriate); the second is for their employers. The surveys will be open until October 1, 2012. Humanities scholars come from a wide array of backgrounds and embark on a variety of careers in areas like libraries, museums, archives, higher education and humanities administration, publishing, research and technology, and more. SCI anticipates that data collected during the study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the diversity of career paths that humanities scholars pursue after their graduate studies, while also highlighting opportunities to better prepare students for a range of careers beyond the tenure track. The study complements the public database that SCI recently created as a way to clarify the breadth of the field, and to foster community among a diverse group (available at http://altacademy.wufoo.com/reports/who-we-are/). Both the database and the surveys are being administered by Dr. Katina Rogers as part of SCI's current phase of work -- which includes a close concentration on graduate education reform and the preparation of future knowledge workers, educators, and cultural heritage and scholarly communications professionals. The survey results will help us to make curriculum recommendations so that graduate programs may better serve future students, and anonymized or summarized data will be made available at at a later date via http://uvasci.org. Please contact Katina at katina.rogers@virginia.edu if you’d like to know more. •Complete the main survey: http://alt-academy.questionpro.com/ •Complete the employer survey: http://alt-academy.employers.questionpro.com/ Thank you in advance for your time and support on this project. -- Katina Rogers, Ph.D. Senior Research Specialist Scholarly Communication Institute uvasci.org http://uvasci.org/ | katina.rogers@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 Fri Jul 13 23:44:21 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B86284E5E; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:44:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EB704284E4D; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:44:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120713234413.EB704284E4D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:44:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.160 new publication: controversies in the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 160. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:31:08 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Historical Social Research / Historisch Sozialforschung 37.3 Historical Social Research / Historisch Sozialforschung 37.3 Special Issue: Controversies around the Digital Humanities, ed. Manfred Thaller www.gesis.org/publikationen/zeitschriften/hsr/inhalte/ This special issue presents the proceedings of a workshop that took place at Wahn Manor House, Cologne, on April 23rd-24th 2012, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first conference on the use of computer technology in the Humanities. This anniversary finds the Digital Humanities alive and well established. Sufficiently well established, that the workshop has been specifically organized to avoid an unrealistically harmonious picture and focus instead on some of the questions, where serious differences of opinion exist within the community. As the Digital Humanities have recently been embedded frequently into the general development of digital resources in the world of digital libraries, this broad definition of the field is used. Pairs of speakers known to support different points of view have discussed the following questions: (a) Should he Digital Humanities be understood more as a methodology or more as an infrastructure? (b) Are really all the different national traditions of the field converging in today’s mainstream Digital Humanities view? (c) Is there an overall methodology of the Digital Humanities, beyond solutions for individual disciplines? (d) What is the role of markup? (e) How should infrastructures for the Digital Humanities be constructed? (f) What is the relative importance of conceptual v. technical arguments in constructing Digital Humanities solutions? (g) What is the relationship in well defined fields, as e.g. Digital Libraries, between abstract considerations and Computer Science? Mit Beiträgen von Manfred Thaller, Willard McCarty, Susan Schreibman, Domenico Fiormonte, Jan Christoph Meister, Jeremy Huggett, Espen S. Ore, Desmond Schmidt, Sheila Anderson & Tobias Blanke, Joris van Zundert, Helen R. Tibbo, Henry M. Gladney und Hans-Christoph Hobohm. -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, 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 Jul 13 23:45:27 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A79284EC6; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:45:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 86528284EA4; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:45:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120713234519.86528284EA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:45:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.161 Medical Heritage Library grows X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 161. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:11:13 -0400 From: Medical Heritage Library Subject: The Medical Heritage Library Welcomes a New Content Contributor *The Medical Heritage Library is pleased to welcome a new content contributor.* Wellcome Film http://archive.org/details/wellcomefilm is an online digital collection moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine owned and now digitized by the Wellcome Library http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/index.html in London. The project chronicles the history of medicine over the last 100 years and has been freely available in Internet Archive since 2010. The earliest footage dates from the era of founder, Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) who was an American-born pharmaceutical magnate. Included is rare footage from Gebel (or Jebel) Moya in the Sudan 1912-13 showing scenes of everyday life, archaeological digging, communal sports and recreation. Later decades are represented by films featuring breakthrough medicine such as surgical techniques and drug treatments. The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a content centered digital community supporting research, education, and dialog that enables the history of medicine to contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and society. It serves as the point of access to a valuable body of quality curated digital materials and to the broader digital and nondigital holdings of its members. It was established in 2010 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation via the Open Knowledge Common to digitize 30,000 medical rare books. In addition to the participants named above, MHL principal contributors are Johns Hopkins University, New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Public Library, and the Wellcome Library. The MHL has since grown to include content contributors Duke University, University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Lamar Soutter Library, and the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto. The MHL is proud to announce that it has added Wellcome Film to its online content in IA and looks forward to working more with the Wellcome Library in the future. Thank you! ~Hanna Clutterbuck MHL Project Co-ordinator _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 22:12:59 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BC32841BE; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:12:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5DF4E28419D; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:12:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120715221238.5DF4E28419D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:12:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.162 asst professorship at Bern X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 162. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:16:45 +0000 From: Subject: Assistant Professorship in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern (Switzerland) In-Reply-To: <20120712204142.853352840BE@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Humanist readers, An assistant professorship in Digital Humanities is advertised at the University of Bern (Switzerland). The deadline for applications is 1st September 2012. For further information see: http://www.jobs.unibe.ch/detail.asp?ID=5255&KatID=11 With best wishes Michael Stolz -- Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz, vice dean of the arts and humanities faculty University of Bern CH-3000 Bern 9 Tel.: +41 31 631 83 04 Fax: +41 31 631 37 88 E-mail: michael.stolz@germ.unibe.ch URL: http://www.parzival.unibe.ch/stolz/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 22:16:50 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B02284248; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:16:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 68A36284232; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:16:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120715221643.68A36284232@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:16:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 26.163 publications: interdisciplinary topic maps; surveillance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 163. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (36) Subject: Crossing interdisciplinary boundaries [2] From: Christian Fuchs (53) Subject: report on polticial economy of communications surveillance --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:50:51 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Crossing interdisciplinary boundaries In-Reply-To: <20120713234149.C7FBE284DC4@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, News of crossing interdisciplinary boundaries with topic maps: LSU Researchers Create Topic Map of Oil Spill Disaster http://www.lsu.edu/ur/ocur/lsunews/MediaCenter/News/2012/07/item50502.html From the post: > The Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill incident has impacted > many aspects of the coastal environment and inhabitants of surrounding > states. However, government officials, Gulf-based researchers, > journalists and members of the general public who want a big picture > of the impact on local ecosystems and communities are currently > limited by discipline-specific and fractured information on the > various aspects of the incident and its impacts. > > > To solve this problem, Assistant Professor in the School of Library > and Information Science Yejun Wu is leading the way in information > convergence on oil spill events. Wu’s lab has created a first edition > of an online topic map, available at http://topicmap.lsu.edu/, that > brings together information from a wide range of research fields > including biological science, chemistry, coastal and environmental > science, engineering, political science, mass communication studies > and many other disciplines in order to promote collaboration and big > picture understanding of technological disasters. > Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Former 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: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:32:56 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: report on polticial economy of communications surveillance In-Reply-To: <20120713234149.C7FBE284DC4@woodward.joyent.us> Fuchs, Christian. 2012. Implications of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Internet Surveillance for Society. The Privacy & Security-Research Paper Series, edited by Emilio Mordini and Christian Fuchs. ISSN 2270-7467. Research Paper Number 1. EU FP7 project “PACT – Public Perception of Security and Privacy: Assessing Knowledge, Collecting Evidence, Translating Research into Action“. 125 pages. http://www.projectpact.eu/documents-1/%231_Privacy_and_Security_Research_Paper_Series.pdf http://www.projectpact.eu/documents-1 Abstract Internet surveillance technologies have recently received attention when it became public that Western security companies exported such equipment to countries like Syria, Libya, Iran, Egypt or Bahrain, where they seem to have been used for repression agaisnt political activists. This research report focuses on the analysis of the political economy of one such communications surveillance technology - Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). It analyses societal implications of DPI Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) surveillance technologies are communications surveillance tools that are able to monitor the traffic of network data that is sent over the Internet at all seven layers of the OSI Reference Model of Internet communication, which includes the surveillance of content data. The analysis presented in this paper is based on product sheets, self-descriptions, and product presentations by 20 European security technology companies that produce and sell DPI technologies. For each company, we have conducted a document analysis of the available files. It focused on the four following aspects: 1) Description and use of the Internet surveillance technologies that are produced and sold. 2) The self-description of the company. 3) The explanation of the relevance of Internet surveillance, i.e. why the company thinks it is important that it produces and sells such technologies. 4) A documentation of what the company says about opportunities and problems that can arise in the context of Internet surveillance. The assessment of societal implications of DPI is based on opinions of security industry representatives, scholars, and privacy advocates that were voiced in white papers, tech reports, research reports, on websites, in press releases, and in news media. The results can be summarized in the form of several impact dimensions: 1. Potential advantages of DPI 2. Net neutrality 3. The power of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for undermining users’ trust 4. Potential function creep of DPI surveillance 5. Targeted advertising 6. The surveillance of file sharers 7. Political repression and social discrimination The conducted analysis of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies shows that there is a variety of potential impacts of this technology on society. A general conclusion is that for understanding new surveillance technologies, we do not only need privacy and data protection assessments, but broader societal and ethical impact assessments that take into account the political economy of the security-industrial complex. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 20:35:52 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: hu